Background Assessment of the effective use of international travel measures during the
COVID-19 pandemic has focused on public health goals, namely limiting virus introduction …

Labour mobility within the European Union (EU) is still increasing, and often such workers
carry out 'essential'work. Yet, while EU law accords certain labour and social rights, mobile …

This paper serves as the introduction for a special issue investigating the current status of
the new EU mobility regime close to 20 years after the first eastward enlargement. Our main …

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 …

This article introduces the Special Issue on Eastern Europe in the COVID-19 crisis. It seeks
to shed light on the different and partly worse experiences in East Central Europe compared …

Extensively updated, this second edition of the Advanced Introduction to Social Policy
provides a concise overview of the field that takes newer realities into account as well as …

The Covid‐19 pandemic highlighted the economic contribution of migrant workers in
maintaining essential services and access to goods. This new perspective on migrants as …

Live-in care, provided by mainly female migrants, has developed as a do-it-yourself welfare
mechanism—hardly regulated, with undefined working times, singular labour relations and …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare home care workers' views of their
employment conditions by provider type–private for-profit vs public and non-profit–using the …

All over Europe, the question of sustainable care for the older people gains attention.
Although the number of older migrants is increasing significantly, to date only little empirical …