{"id":34702,"date":"2022-06-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=34702"},"modified":"2022-06-13T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T07:00:00","slug":"care-crises-and-care-fixes-under-covid-19-the-example-of-transnational-live-in-care-work-la-crise-du-travail-de-care-et-des-solutions-a-court-terme-pendant-la-pandemie-de-covid-19-lexem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=34702","title":{"rendered":"Care crises and care fixes under Covid-19: the example of transnational live-in care work \/ La crise du travail de care et des solutions \u00e0 court terme pendant la pand\u00e9mie de COVID-19. L\u2019exemple des arrangements transnationaux du care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author(s) : Sarah Schilliger, Karin Schwiter, Jennifer Steiner<\/h3>\n

Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14649365.2022.2073608<\/a><\/h3>\n

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“The COVID-19 pandemic brought care work to the forefront of attention. In many countries in the Global North, people became painfully aware that they had \u2018outsourced\u2019 a considerable share of this work to temporary migrants. Travel restrictions and lockdown measures disrupted transnational care arrangements and threatened the continuous provision of care. This article uses the example of transnationally organised live-in care in Switzerland to explore measures implemented to maintain care provision during the pandemic. Particularly, it investigates the impacts of these measures on the working conditions and lives of live-in care workers. We build on Emma Dowling\u2019s conceptualisation of \u2018care fixes\u2019 and Brigitte Aulenbacher\u2019s notions of \u2018abstraction\u2019 and \u2018appropriation\u2019 to identify three short-term solutions and argue that they did not solve, but rather only displaced the underlying care crisis. Our insights are based on the analysis of policy documents, 32 in-depth interviews and informal conversations with workers, clients, care agencies and other experts carried out in Switzerland between April 2020 and April 2021. We emphasise the inequalities implicated in transnational care arrangements and their inherent fragility, both of which were exacerbated by the pandemic. We tentatively point to avenues for contestation and for a revaluation of care, which opened up as result of the pandemic-induced disruption of care.”<\/p>\n

Keywords<\/strong>: Care, work, labour, migration, COVID-19, Switzerland<\/p>\n

“La pand\u00e9mie de COVID-19 a pouss\u00e9 le travail du care au premier plan. Dans beaucoup de pays du Nord, il est malheureusement devenu \u00e9vident pour la population qu\u2019une large part de ce travail avait \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab\u2009externalis\u00e9\u00bb vers des migrants temporaires. Les restrictions de voyage et les mesures de confinement ont interrompu les arrangements transnationaux du care et ont mis en danger la poursuite de ces services de soins. Cet article se sert de l\u2019exemple du travail du care organis\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re transnationale en Suisse pour \u00e9tudier les mesures mises en \u0153uvre afin de maintenir les prestations de soins pendant la pand\u00e9mie. En particulier, il \u00e9tudie l\u2019impact de ces mesures sur les conditions de travail et la vie des travailleuses du care. Nous nous appuyons sur la conceptualisation de \u00ab\u2009care fixes\u2009\u00bb propos\u00e9e par Emma Dowling et les notions d\u2019\u00ab\u2009abstraction\u2009\u00bb et d\u2019\u00ab\u2009appropriation\u2009\u00bb offertes par Brigitte Aulenbacher pour identifier trois solutions \u00e0 court terme et soutenir qu\u2019elles n\u2019ont pas r\u00e9solu, mais plut\u00f4t d\u00e9plac\u00e9 la crise sous-jacente des prestations de soins. Nos perspectives se fondent sur l\u2019analyse de documents de politiques, de 32 entretiensapprofondis et de conversations informelles avec des employ\u00e9s, des clients, des agences de services de soins et d\u2019autres experts, qui ont pris place en Suisse entre avril 2020 et avril 2021. Nous soulignons les in\u00e9galit\u00e9s impliqu\u00e9es dans les arrangemens transnationaux du care et leur fragilit\u00e9 inh\u00e9rente, qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 exacerb\u00e9s par la pand\u00e9mie. Nous essayons d\u2019identifier des voies de contestation et de r\u00e9\u00e9valuationdu travail du care qui se sont ouvertes suite \u00e0 la perturbation caus\u00e9e par la pand\u00e9mie.”<\/p>\n

Mots-cl\u00e9s<\/strong> : Soins, care, travail, migration, COVID-19, Suisse<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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