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

This edited volume discusses and analyses the impact of neoliberal policies and ideologies on public and private care practices in Nordic, Central, and East European welfare states. Through new conceptualizations of care practices, chapters take the reader directly into the homes, workplaces, and everyday life of urban and rural residents throughout Europe. The book argues that common neoliberal responses to care crises are not about revaluing care but rather a normalization of precarious work as expressed in moving care from public institutions to families within private homes. Featuring contributions from eight countries, chapters contribute to research on gender, care, migration, and welfare policies by discussing how recent developments in global capitalism and neoliberal policies influence welfare policies and care arrangements in post-egalitarian and post-socialist societies in Europe.

Includes case studies from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, and Hungary Discusses influence on established welfare policies and care arrangements in (post)egalitarian welfare states The first collection of case studies including and creating dialogue between Nordic and post-socialist societies

Autorentext
Lena Näre is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research focuses on care work, migration, transnationalism, aging, and asylum. She is Editor-in-Chief of Nordic Journal of Migration Research and Associate Editor of Global Social Challenges Journal.

Lise Widding Isaksen is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research interests include gender, care, social stratification, migration, and welfare/state politics. She teaches sociology of the family, migration, and the welfare state.

Inhalt

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.