Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States /

"How do we care for the young and old? How has this changed from the past? Are they for better or worse? In this exciting new volume, the co-editors offer the latest research on eight Nordic and East European nations. Using the concepts of care loops, stretched care, and care loopholes, the aut...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Näre, Lena (Editor), Isaksen, Lise Widding (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life,
Subjects:	Sociology. Social groups. Social policy. Family policy. Welfare state. Social service. Sex. Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. Comparative Social Policy. Children, Youth and Family Policy. Welfare. Social Care. Gender Studies. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Care loops, mobilities, and the neoliberalisation of care in transforming welfare states
2. Trapped in the institution: governing the COVID-19 epidemic in Slovenian eldercare homes from the perspective of care micro-mobilities
3. The neoliberalisation of the family-by-default model: the case of provision of elder care at a local level in Poland
4. Hungarian migrant care workers between local and cross-border care loops
5. 'Quality time' in nanny families: local care loops and new inequalities in Sweden
6. Care loops under one roof: multigenerational living, grandmothers and intergenerational puzzles of caring responsibilities in the Czech Republic
7. Local care loops among foster families in rural Russia
8. Lunchrooms in the care loops: Filipino au pair migrants between hierarchy and equality
9. Social reproductive struggles of Filipino migrants in Finland
10. Toward a mobility perspective on care.