CRISIS AS CATALYST? ROMANIAN MIGRANT CARE WORKERS IN ITALIAN HOME-BASED CARE ARRANGEMENTS

• Authors: Seiffarth Marlene
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The COVID-19 crisis in Italy has brought to public attention the labour of almost one million migrant care workers (MCWs) who care for older Italian persons in their homes. Over the past three decades, the migrant-in-the-family model has become one of the main pillars of eldercare provision in Italy. The increase of this kind of care is analysed with a mixed-method approach, using official statistics, secondary literature, and expert interviews. The analysis integrates dynamics in the countries of origin and destination and focuses on Romanian MCWs as a case in point. The analysis highlights crises as catalysts for complex consequences and dynamics of transnational care migration, which play out at the levels of state, family, and individuals.

Keywords

EN

MIGRANT CARE WORK; ITALY; ROMANIA; CRISIS

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 502 – 520

Contributors

author

Seiffarth Marlene

• University of Bremen, Mary-Somerville-Str. 7, 28359 Bremen, Germany

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.5.19