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Solving the Tensions: A Polanyian perspective on migrants working in home-based elderly care

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Safuta, Anna [UCL]

This paper focuses on undeclared, paid, home-based provision of elderly care by first generation migrants ('undeclared migrant care work', UMCW)in Belgium and in Poland. the objective is to show how migrant care workers (MCWs) use resources stemming from UMCW to ease or solve the tensions they encounter in the course of their employment and migration careers. Said tensions are inadequacies between MVWs'preferences and the implicit or explicit outcomes of hos countries' migration regimes. Using a conceptual framewok based on a revised version of Polanyian 'forms of integration', the article insists in particular on resources stemming from reciprocity and non-instituted householding.

Document type Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper) – Présentation orale avec comité de sélection
Publication date 2011
Language Anglais
Conference "Informal Economy, Vulnerabilities and Employment", Geneva, Switzerland (du 09/02/2012 au 10/02/2012)
Peer reviewed yes
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies
Keywords Undeclared migrant care work ; Elderly care ; Migration ; Polanyi ; Reciprocity ; Householding
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Bibliographic reference Safuta, Anna. Solving the Tensions: A Polanyian perspective on migrants working in home-based elderly care .Informal Economy, Vulnerabilities and Employment (Geneva, Switzerland, du 09/02/2012 au 10/02/2012).
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/108267