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The Global Old Age Care Industry

Tapping into migrants for tackling the old age care crisis

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Examines the mechanisms, policies, strategies and actors that are involved in mobilizing, recruiting and placing migrant care workers from poorer countries in private households and long-term care services in richer countries
  • Addresses a gap in the literature by investigating the complex entanglement and involvement of a growing number of actors in the recruitment and incorporation of migrants in national old age care systems, and how this shapes the delivery of old age care
  • Provides a cutting-edge interdisciplinary and global analysis of the processes and mechanisms underlying the increasing migration of old age care workers in different countries and regions in the world

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction: The Global Old-Age Care Industry—Tapping into Care Labor Across and Within National Borders

    • Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe, Anita Böcker, María Bruquetas-Callejo
    Pages 1-27
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 315-325

About this book

This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry developing as a response to tackle the “old age care crisis” in richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the multiple levels influencing their activities. Accordingly, it examines the significance of old age care regimes and policies as well as intermediaries and promoters for initiating, shaping and perpetuating old age care arrangements based on migrant labor and the relationships within them. Particular emphasis is placed on the risks and implications of these arrangements for the well-being and the social protection of the different actors involved. The book analyzes these processes and structures from a global perspective including different countries and regions of the world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Education, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe

  • Faculty of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Anita Böcker

  • Center for Migration Law/Sociology of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    María Bruquetas-Callejo

About the editors

Vincent Horn is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Education, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.


Cornelia Schweppe is Full Professor of Social Pedagogy at the Institute of Education, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.


Anita Böcker is Associate Professor of Sociology of Law at the Faculty of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.


María Bruquetas-Callejo is Research Fellow at Research Center for State and Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Global Old Age Care Industry

  • Book Subtitle: Tapping into migrants for tackling the old age care crisis

  • Editors: Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe, Anita Böcker, María Bruquetas-Callejo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2237-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2236-6Published: 15 August 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2239-7Published: 16 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2237-3Published: 14 August 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 325

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Medical Sociology, Social Work, Aging, Migration

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