Care (Mis)match: Arranging "Good" Care Relations for Multilingual Care Work Trainees in Denmark.

IF 1.2 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-04-14 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2026.2655769

Sara Lei Sparre, Stine Hauberg Nielsen

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Abstract

In Denmark, a growing number of care workers are multilingual. To address labor shortage, municipalities recruit resident migrants for training in elderly care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we explore how migrant care work trainees' struggles with Danish language affect their relationships with older citizens and influence supervisors' work practices. We show how supervisors arrange "good" care relations by matching multilingual trainees with particular older citizens to support migrants' training and language learning. This practice fosters some relationships while hindering others, as part of broader efforts to meet care expectations and secure the future workforce in the Danish elderly care.

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照顾（错）配：为丹麦多语种护理工作学员安排“良好”的照顾关系。

在丹麦，越来越多的护理人员会说多种语言。为了解决劳动力短缺问题，市政当局招募外来居民接受老年护理培训。基于民族志的田野调查，我们探讨了移民护理工作学员在丹麦语上的挣扎如何影响他们与老年公民的关系，并影响主管的工作实践。我们展示了主管如何安排“良好”的照顾关系，将多语种受训人员与特定的老年公民相匹配，以支持移民的培训和语言学习。这种做法促进了一些关系，同时阻碍了其他关系，作为满足护理期望和确保丹麦老年人护理未来劳动力的更广泛努力的一部分。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.