{"id":36452,"date":"2024-05-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=36452"},"modified":"2024-05-06T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T07:00:00","slug":"producing-immobilities-in-home-care-for-the-elderly-the-role-of-home-care-agencies-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=36452","title":{"rendered":"Producing (im)mobilities in home care for the elderly: the role of home care agencies in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Huey Shy Chau<\/h3>\n<h3>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5167\/uzh-181826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5167\/uzh-181826<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Free Movement of Persons Agreement has fostered the emergence of a new market for live-in care in Switzerland. Private care agencies recruit women from the European Union (EU) accession states and place them as live-in carers for the elderly in private households. This paper focuses on how these agencies organise these live-in care arrangements.\u00a0 Drawing on concepts of the politics of mobility, I analyse the production of (im)mobilities through the placement and recruitment practices of care agencies and the power relations that underlie live-in care arrangements. The findings show that live-in care is constituted both by mobilities, exemplified by care workers\u2019 circular movements and need to be highly mobile, and by care workers\u2019 immobilities once they start working in a household. The care workers\u2019 mobility is in turn enabled by the agencies\u2019 placement practices and by infrastructures specialised in their movements, which serve as moorings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Gender Studies, Migration, Social Geography, Cultural Geography, Care, Mobilities, Home care, Migrant worker, labour migration, care worker, Cultural Studies, Life-span and Life-course Studies, Health (social science)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Huey Shy Chau Source:https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5167\/uzh-181826 Abstract:<\/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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[582,362,7,659,45,120,15,196,142,240,9,107,148,157,324,110,245,158],"class_list":["post-36452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-migration-phenomenon","tag-582","tag-access-to-employment","tag-article","tag-care-workers","tag-circular-migration","tag-data-analysis","tag-economic-impact","tag-economics","tag-elderly","tag-employment","tag-english-language","tag-freedom-of-movement","tag-gender","tag-health-care","tag-immobility","tag-mobility","tag-temporary-migration","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\/36452","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=36452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}