{"id":33500,"date":"2021-04-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=33500"},"modified":"2021-04-05T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T07:00:00","slug":"impact-of-covid-19-policy-responses-on-live-in-care-workers-in-austria-germany-and-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=33500","title":{"rendered":"Impact of COVID-19 Policy Responses on Live-In Care Workers in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Michael Leiblfinger, Veronika Prieler, Karin Schwiter, Jennifer Steiner, Aranka Benazha, Helma Lutz<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.31389\/jltc.51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/doi.org\/10.31389\/jltc.51<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"hlFld-Abstract\">\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\">&#8220;<strong>Context:<\/strong> The measures taken to counter the COVID-19 pandemic restricted the circular migration of live-in care workers between their countries of origin and the elderly persons\u2019 households.<\/div>\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\"><strong>Objective:<\/strong> In this comparative policy analysis, the impact of COVID-19 related policy measures for transnationally organised live-in care in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland is investigated.<\/div>\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\"><strong>Method:<\/strong> Policy measures and media debates were analysed and inquiries with care workers, representatives of care agencies, unions, and activist groups were carried out between March and June 2020.<\/div>\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\"><strong>Findings:<\/strong> In accordance with their institutionalisation of live-in care, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland responded differently to the challenges the pandemic posed to live-in care arrangements. However, all three countries focused on extending care workers\u2019 rotas and re-establishing transnational mobility. These priorities subordinated the interests of care workers to those of care recipients. Furthermore, the measures remained short-term solutions that failed to acknowledge the fundamental flaws and inequalities of a care model that relies primarily on female migrant workers and wage differentials within Europe.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"abstractKeywords\">\n<div class=\"hlFld-KeywordText\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"kwd-title\" aria-label=\"Keywords\"><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: l<span class=\"span-how-to\"><span class=\"span-citation\">ive-in care, home-based care, transnational care, migration, care worker, COVID-19 policy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Michael Leiblfinger, Veronika Prieler, Karin Schwiter, Jennifer Steiner,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[654,7,251,659,668,45,57,696,9,226,157,122,110,26,383,201,158],"class_list":["post-33500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-654","tag-article","tag-austria","tag-care-workers","tag-caregivers","tag-circular-migration","tag-comparative-analysis","tag-covid-19","tag-english-language","tag-germany","tag-health-care","tag-migrants","tag-mobility","tag-transnationalism","tag-wages","tag-women","tag-working-conditions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}