CareOrg
Researching the transnational organization of senior care, labor and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Project claim
The collaborative research project CareOrg investigates transnational senior care work from and within Central and Eastern Europe. Our main idea is to develop tools to understand and theorize emerging transnational care markets and identify solutions for sustainable and decent care work in Europe.
We focus on sending and transit countries of Central and Eastern Europe
We shift the academic focus towards a discussion of the meso-level organization of care by empirically investigating it through five topic-oriented case studies
We map and analyze current and future patterns of commodification, marketization, transnationalization, professionalization, and digitalization of senior care
We formulate policy recommendations and feed into public and professional debate on decent care work and sustainable long-term care solutions within an asymmetrical Europe
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About CareOrg
Given demographic, political, and social developments, the demand for transnational senior care services will continue to grow across Europe. Fueled by economic inequalities in Europe, transnational senior care would seem to provide a perfect solution to the reproductive crisis facing many countries while also providing benefits for welfare states, labor markets, and households. However, a question mark hangs over its sustainability.
Research into global care work has identified contradictions between accessible care as a right, and the commodification of care, which is primarily oriented towards marketability and profitability.
CareOrg is going to use this tension as a starting point but will push the debate by foregrounding the under-researched and under-theorized meso-level.
Research into global care work has identified contradictions between accessible care as a right, and the commodification of care, which is primarily oriented towards marketability and profitability.
CareOrg is going to use this tension as a starting point but will push the debate by foregrounding the under-researched and under-theorized meso-level.
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How
is the transnational organization of senior care from and within the Central and Eastern European countries shaped, formalized, professionalized, and politicized in and across the different countries?
How
is the senior care market in the Central and Eastern European countries changing as a result of developments within transnational care migration?
What
do these developments mean for Central and Eastern Europe: migrant care workers, their families, communities, labor markets, and welfare states?
How is the transnational organization of senior care from and within the Central and Eastern European countries shaped, formalized, professionalized, and politicized in and across the different countries?
How is the senior care market in the Central and Eastern European countries changing as a result of developments within transnational care migration?
What do these developments mean for Central and Eastern Europe: migrant care workers, their families, communities, labor markets, and welfare states?
How Can We Help?
CareOrg addresses the care drain and care chains by foregrounding the infrastructure by means of which care workers enter the labor markets of receiving countries, and at the same time by looking at the transformations in senior care in the sending countries.
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CareOrg Team
CareOrg brings together regionally based experts in the fields of labor, mobility, care, and ageing studies. They previously worked together on numerous research projects and collaborations, most recently in the international network EUROCare, which focused on different forms of mobility related to senior care in Central and Eastern Europe. CareOrg is also dedicated to building academic capacity in the Central and Eastern European region.
CareOrg is committed to engaged research to:
Identify practical “bottlenecks”
the transnational organization of senior care from and within the Central and Eastern European countries shaped, formalized, professionalized, and politicized in and across the different countries?
Understand the meaning
of transnational care, decent work, vulnerability of workers, and care for them (wellbeing, health, social protection),
Suggest policy implications
based on identified care needs in the region, transnational care chains, issues of intersecting inequalities, and the marketization and professionalization of care.
Outreach
CareOrg reaches out to diverse audiences - academic, political, social, educational and cultural, both locally and at the supranational level.