Live-in migrant care worker arrangements in Germany and the Netherlands: motivations and justifications in family decision-making

Q1 Social Sciences

International Journal of Ageing and Later Life Pub Date : 2019-12-06 DOI:10.3384/IJAL.1652-8670.18410

Vincent Horn, C. Schweppe, A. Böcker, María Bruquetas-Callejo

引用次数: 23

Abstract

Private households in ageing societies increasingly employ live-in migrant carers (LIMCs) to care for relatives in need of 24/7 care and supervision. Whilst LIMC arrangements are a common practice in Germany, they are only recently emerging in the Netherlands. Taking this development as a starting point, this study uses the countries’ different long-term care (LTC) regimes as the analytical framework to explore and compare the motivations and justifications of German and Dutch family carers who opt for an LIMC arrangment. Findings show that Dutch and German LTC regimes impact differently the decision-making processes of families, as well as on patterns of justification, through a combination of policies and social norms and their related expectations towards care and care work in old age.

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德国和荷兰的移民护理人员安排：家庭决策的动机和理由

老龄化社会的私人家庭越来越多地雇用住家移民照顾者(limc)来照顾需要全天候照顾和监督的亲属。虽然LIMC安排在德国是一种常见的做法，但它们最近才在荷兰出现。以这一发展为出发点，本研究以两国不同的长期照护制度为分析框架，探讨和比较德国和荷兰家庭照护者选择长期照护制度的动机和理由。研究结果表明，荷兰和德国的LTC制度通过政策和社会规范及其对老年护理和护理工作的相关期望的结合，对家庭的决策过程以及正当性模式产生了不同的影响。

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International Journal of Ageing and Later Life Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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3.10

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审稿时长

27 weeks

期刊介绍： The International Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL) serves an audience interested in social and cultural aspects of ageing and later life development. As such, the Journal welcomes contributions that aim at advancing the theoretical and conceptual debate on research on ageing and later life. Contributions based on empirical work are also welcome as are methodologically interested discussions of relevance to the study of ageing and later life. Being an international journal, IJAL acknowledges the need to understand the cultural diversity and context dependency of ageing and later life.