Migrant Home Care Workers Caring for Older People: Fictive Kin, Substitute and Complementary Family Caregivers in an Ethnically Diverse Environment

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Authors

VIDOVICOVÁ Lucie HOFF Andreas FELDMAN Susan

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source International Journal of Ageing and Later Life
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Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Field Sociology, demography
Keywords migrant workers; home care
Description This paper introduces the topic of migrant home care workers in Europe and Canada. It gives an overview of demographic situation of an ageing world and points out the rapid ageing of the oldest old, with increasing levels of care need in this segment of population. More and more often those needs are met by migrant care worker, which creates new solutions as well as possible new conflicts in both society and family. In the context of dynamic migration trends various dichotomies are addressed: family and state care provision; care giver and care receiver; sending vs. receiving countries. Further issues related to values, expectations, representations and legal system are touched upon.
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