Care Workers, Care Drain, and Care Chains: Reflections on Care, Migration, and Citizenship

2012/01/18 by H Lutz, Ewa Palenga‐Möllenbeck · 1 citation
Health Professions · Medicine · Nursing · Social Sciences · #Business #Care work #Citizenship #Economic growth #Economics #Elderly care #Employment and Welfare Studies #Feminization (sociology) #Gender studies #Immigration #Law #Medicine #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Nursing #Phenomenon #Political science #Sociology #Work (physics)

paper · doi:10.1093/sp/jxr026

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Abstract

In this article, we discuss a case study that deals with the care chain phenomenon and focuses on the question of how Poland and the Ukraine as sending countries and Poland as a receiving country are affected and deal with female migrant domestic workers. We look at the ways in which these women organize care replacement for their families left behind and at those families’ care strategies. As public discourse in both countries is reacting to the feminization of migration in a form that specifically questions the social citizenship obligations of these women, we also look at the media portrayal of the situation of nonmigrating children. Finally, we explore how different aspects of citizenship matter in transnational care work migration movements.

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