The panel took as its starting point two opposing directions of welfare state restructuring – marketization and communitarization – and the central question of place-based ageing: the right of older people to remain in their own homes. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck and Ivanna Kyliushyk examined live-in care organised by transnational agencies in Central and Eastern Europe as a radical form of marketization, exploring emerging forms of solidarity, unionization, and co-produced knowledge. Neda Deneva shifted focus to Romania, analysing how returning care workers introduce new knowledge and solidarity into nursing home communities. Antía Mejuto presented research on self-managed care worker cooperatives in Spain as community-based alternatives enabling older people to age locally. Lista Bonfert (University of Luxembourg) contributed reflections on migration research through midwifery practices with transnational families. Finally, Anna Kainradl and Ulla Kriebernegg examined older migrants in Austria, arguing that centering their perspectives can contribute to fairer forms of knowledge production in care.
The panel was discussed by Sabrina Marchetti and Anna Kainradl.
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