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Female Migrants Caring for their Elderly Parents: An Understudied Case?

06.03.2019 , in ((Blog series, Erfahrung)) , ((Keine Kommentare))
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Caring for vulnerable kin, children and elderly parents plays an important role in transnational families. As addressed in the global care circulation concept, female migrants from the Global South taking care of children and elderly members of wealthy families solve a public problem privately. We slightly change the focus and ...

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High-Skilled but Unemployed: The Absence of Expat Wives from the Labor Market

13.12.2018 , in ((Blog Serien, Blog series, Politik, Skills and Migration)) , ((Keine Kommentare))

“Knowledge migration” in the Netherlands is a largely male affair. This is especially true for Indian who make up the largest group of “high-skilled” migrants to the country. Under Dutch Law, the partners of knowledge migrants are given a work permit but many of the Indian “expat wives” are unemployed. ...

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Mobility versus Caring Skills? The Recruitment of Care Workers for the Elderly

07.12.2018 , in ((Blog Serien, Blog series, Politik, Skills and Migration)) , ((Keine Kommentare))

A new market for home care has emerged in Switzerland, fostered by the free movement of workers. Private care agencies recruit women from lower-wage countries and place them in private households for elderly care. The women usually work for a few weeks or months at a time and commute between ...

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