Brokering Circular Labour Migration
A Mobile Ethnography of Migrant Care Workers’ Journey to Switzerland
Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 12 March 2020
- ISBN 9780367140571
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages190 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 Illustrations, black & white; 2 Halftones, black & white; 1 Line drawings, black & white; 3 Tables, black & white 44
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Short description:
This book examines the commercialisation of domestic and care work through private agencies organising transnational care arrangements by brokering migrant workers.
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This book examines the commercialisation of domestic and care work through private agencies that organise transnational care arrangements by brokering migrant workers.
The book focuses on the emergence of private for-profit home care agencies following the 2011 extension of the Free Movement of Workers to Eastern European Countries agreement in Switzerland. The agencies recruit migrant women from these countries and place them in private households for elderly care. This book explores how circular labour migration for these care workers is facilitated. In the form of a mobile ethnography, it traces their journey from Eastern European countries to Switzerland – from when care workers find employment and are recruited by agencies to when they arrive at their designated households. From the agencies’ analytical standpoint, the book examines the recruitment and placement practices of the home care agencies and their role in facilitating migration.
Brokering Labour Migration offers an understanding of new migration patterns and highlights fundamental changes in migration control with the extension of free movement of workers in Switzerland to lower-wage countries in Eastern Europe. It will be an invaluable resource for academics and scholars of geography, anthropology, sociology, and gender and migration.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of tables and figures; Glossary; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. The black box of live-in care labour migration; 2. Paving the way to live-in care work; 3. The rise of home care agencies and packaged home care services; 4. How regulations matter for care agencies and care workers; 5. Finding a job in live-in care; 6. Recruiting care workers; 7. Matching with and travelling to the workplace; 8. Arriving at the household; 9. Care of care workers; 10. The middle space of migration and time for a care revolution; Bibliography; Index.
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