Converging variations in migrant care work in Europe
Converging variations in migrant care work in Europe
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DOI：
10.1177/0958928712449771
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发表时间：
2012-09
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
F. Williams
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作者：
F. Williams
尽管欧洲福利国家雇用移徙妇女担任护理员的人数在增加，但增加的速度、程度和性质各不相同。本文借鉴对农民工关爱工作的实证研究，从微观、中观和宏观三个层面展开分析。其主要目的是通过制定与三套制度--照料制度、移徙制度和就业制度--相关联的指标，在中观层面上取得进展。有人认为，在任何一个国家内，这三种制度的交叉方式都会出现差异。这些交叉路口让我们能够看到不同的地点、市场和护理工作部门，从而揭示出整个欧洲在移民护理劳动力就业方面日益趋同的程度。这种趋同在宏观层面促成了一种关怀的跨国政治经济。
While the employment of migrant women as care workers in European welfare states is increasing, the rate, extent and nature of this increase vary. The article draws on empirical research on migrant care work to develop links between three levels of analysis – micro, meso and macro. The main aim is to progress analysis of the meso level by developing indicators attached to three sets of regimes – care regimes, migration regimes and employment regimes. It is argued that variations emerge in the ways these three regimes intersect within any one country. These intersections allow us to look across different sites, markets and sectors of care work and, in so doing, reveal a degree of growing convergence across Europe in the employment of migrant care labour. This convergence contributes, at the macro level, to a transnational political economy of care.