Context: 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' …

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 …

This article looks at the role of private companies involved in organizing so-called live-in
care arrangements between two EU member states, Germany and Poland. Due to gaps in …

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 'outsourced'a considerable …

Post-1989, with the new phase of globalisation, the international sociology of care
diagnoses a deep going transformation of care regimes. Scholars emphasise three …

This article analyses the new market for live-in migrant care work in Germany and Austria,
focusing on brokering agencies as intermediary actors. The analysis presents unique data …

Demographic developments have caused challenges to national arrangements for elderly
care. In Austria one answer has been the employment of migrant carers in the home of …

Over the last decades, the marketization of live-in care for the elderly in Austria has been
accompanied by new forms of regulation and the contestation surrounding this type of care …

Based on conceptualizations of a continuum of exploitation to examine phenomena related
to precariousness and modern slavery, this article examined Romanian transnational live-in …

Population ageing and the higher prevalence of multimorbidity in later life are increasing the
demand for Long-Term Care (LTC) worldwide; this has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 …