The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to the closure or reduction in support services for family
carers, resulting in increased social isolation and stress for this population. The current …

Purpose: We analyzed the effects of COVID-19 as well as its accompanying epidemiological
control measures on health-related outcomes (physical and mental health) and unmet care …

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 …

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 …

As COVID-19 puts older people in long-term institutional care at the highest risk of infection
and death, the need for home-based care has increased. Germany relies largely on migrant …

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

In the COVID-19 pandemic the (nuclear) family, and the private household that is assumed
to contain it, receives an enormous revaluation across different welfare regimes. At the same …

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 …

Method: The analysis was carried out via desk-research, which covered literature, on-going
qualitative analysis of media coverage, and statements and reports by interest organisations …

Background and aim of the work: The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected the quality of
people's social life, strongly impacting family dynamics, too, not only in the harshest periods …