CEZHRANIČNÁ CIRKULÁCIA SLOVENSKÝCH OPATROVATELIEK V RAKÚSKU POČAS PANDÉMIE NA POZADÍ KRÍZY STAROSTLIVOSTI

• Authors: Wilsch Martina

Title variants

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Cross-border circulation of Slovak care workers in Austria during the pandemic against the background of the care crisis

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The paper focuses on the cross-border care circulation of Slovak care workers who work in Austria, with the care crisis and the pandemic in the background. Slovak care workers often work in short-term two-week work rotas, allowing them to balance work and private life. They remain primarily responsible for the social reproduction and care of their households. The pandemic and imposed measures have fundamentally affected this transnational circulation of care. Caregivers faced the challenge of mobilizing capacities and resources to cope with emerging situations, developing new strategies, and modifying existing ones. Based on interviews with care workers, employment agencies, and a non-governmental organization focusing on the rights of care workers, the study presents how care workers coped with the measures introduced during the pandemic period, describes selected strategies of care workers to ensure social reproduction in their families despite the pandemic, and also discuss selected changes in the individual life trajectories of women, to which the pandemic period contributed. The paper argues that although women contributed to addressing the emerging care deficit reinforced by the pandemic crisis, they had to rely on their capacities for the care needs of their families.

Keywords

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COVID-19 PANDEMIC; CARE CRISIS; CAREGIVERS; SLOVAKIA; AUSTRIA

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 42 - 60

Contributors

author

Wilsch Martina

• Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie SAV, v. v. i., Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6502-5503

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/SN.2023.1.04