'Care Migration - Care Marketization: Reflections on a Complex Interplay', Symposium in Linz

The international symposium was the concluding conference of the research project '‘Ideal‘ Migrant Subjects: Domestic Service in Globalization' embedded in the research focus on care and care work in the Department for the Theory of Society and Social Analyses at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. It brought together experts in this research field, to increase and intensify the exchange between researchers investigating care migration and marketization in different parts of the world and to discuss differences, commonalities and similarities in new modes of domestic service provision.

Our colleagues Petra Ezzeddine, Dóra Gábriel, Kristine Krause, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck each held a lecture at the symposium:

• 'Gratitude or Solidarity? Domestic Work in the Humanitarian Arena in the Czech Republic'

Petra Ezzeddine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

• 'Marketization of Senior Care and Lifestyle Migration in Hungary'

Dóra Gábriel, Institute for Regional Studies, Hungary

• 'Care Relocation and Live-in Care in Europe as Results of Transnationalisation and Marketisation of Care: Are They Two Sides of the Same Coin?'

Veronika Prieler, Matouš Jelínek, Kristine Krause, Mariusz Sapieha, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• 'Mapping Organized Care Mobility from and within Central and Eastern Europe'

Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany