MACMILLAN The Global Old Age Care Industry: Tapping into migrants for tackling the old age care crisis

This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry developing as a response to tackle the “old age care crisis” in richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the multiple levels influencing their activities. Accordingly, it examines the significance of old age care regimes and policies as well as intermediaries and promoters for initiating, shaping and perpetuating old age care arrangements based on migrant labor and the relationships within them. Particular emphasis is placed on the risks and implications of these arrangements for the well-being and the social protection of the different actors involved. The book analyzes these processes and structures from a global perspective including different countries and regions of the world. From the Back Cover This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry developing as a response to tackle the “old age care crisis” in richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the multiple levels influencing their activities. Accordingly, it examines the significance of old age care regimes and policies as well as intermediaries and promoters for initiating, shaping and perpetuating old age care arrangements based on migrant labor and the relationships within them. Particular emphasis is placed on the risks and implications of these arrangements for the well-being and the social protection of the different actors involved. The book analyzes these processes and structures from a global perspective including different countries and regions of the world. About the Author Vincent Horn is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Education, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Cornelia Schweppe is Full Professor of Social Pedagogy at the Institute of Education, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Anita Böcker is Associate Professor of Sociology of Law at the Faculty of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. María Bruquetas-Callejo is Research Fellow at Research Center for State and Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.