Confronted with COVID-19: Migrant live-in care during the pandemic.

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Epub Date: 2021-04-09 DOI:10.1177/14680181211008340

Michael Leiblfinger, Veronika Prieler, Mădălina Rogoz, Martina Sekulová

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Abstract

In the spring 2020, measures introduced across Europe to limit the spread of COVID-19 included, among others, the temporary closure of borders. For Romanian and Slovakian live-in carers, this meant they were no longer able to commute between the Austrian households they work in and their respective countries of origin. Due to the relatively short cyclical rotas of 2-4 weeks, travel restrictions heavily affected cross-border live-in care between the three countries, which makes them a particular case for studying the effects of pandemic-related measures on transnational care arrangements. Drawing on media reports, relevant laws and policies, and interviews with representatives of care workers' interests, the article examines how live-in care as a whole and care workers in particular were affected by the pandemic and related policy responses such as specific travel arrangements and financial incentives for workers. It shows that while live-in carers were deemed critical workers and essential for the long-term care system, the inequalities and dependencies already existing in transnational care arrangements were deepened. Care workers' wants, needs and interests were subordinated to the interests of care recipients, agencies and sending and receiving countries.

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面对COVID-19:大流行期间的移民寄宿护理。

2020年春季，欧洲各地采取了限制COVID-19传播的措施，其中包括暂时关闭边境。对于罗马尼亚和斯洛伐克的住家照顾者来说，这意味着他们不再能够在他们工作的奥地利家庭和他们各自的原籍国之间往返。由于周期相对较短(2-4周)，旅行限制严重影响了这三个国家之间的跨境寄宿护理，这使它们成为研究与大流行病有关的措施对跨国护理安排影响的一个特殊案例。根据媒体报道、相关法律和政策以及对护工利益代表的采访，本文考察了整个住家护理，特别是护工如何受到疫情和相关政策应对措施(如具体旅行安排和对护工的财政激励措施)的影响。报告显示，虽然住家照顾者被认为是关键的工作人员，对长期护理系统至关重要，但跨国护理安排中已经存在的不平等和依赖加深了。护理工作者的愿望、需要和兴趣服从于护理接受者、机构和发送国和接收国的利益。

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Global Social Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.20

自引率

6.70%

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期刊介绍： Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.