8th ESPAnet Conference 2010Social Policy and the Global Crisis:
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12.1. Transnational Care Markets: European Care Regimes in the Age of Migration
The stream will look at how recent migratory flows into European countries contribute to the supply of caring labour. More specifically, the aim is to unveil how such contribution crucially depends on how social care provision and migration are organised in European welfare states.
People (women specially) coming from abroad have decisively been responsible for much of the growth in the personal service sector – whether in households or in institutions- in the countries where this sector has expanded. In this sense, the comparison between different forms of provision of paid care work can be explored through the lenses of migrant labour. In fact, the extent of migration into paid work is rapidly becoming one of the key factors re-defining care regime classifications, bringing in a transnational dimension to a field that tends to be seen within the confines of nation-states. The stream will address the following questions:
- To what extent are European care regimes affected by the growth of a transnational care market? Can we identify national peculiarities and/or transnational convergences in this process?
- What is the role played by the different national public regulations of immigration and care in shaping the labour market of care, and the working conditions and perspectives of care workers?
- What are the main consequences of the growth of transnational care markets on the care strategies of families in immigration and/or in emigration countries?
The stream will bring together scholars interested in migration and care from different disciplines and angles. We welcome papers analysing the situation of transnational care markets as well as papers which will focus on the public regulation of immigration and care. Preferably, papers should have a comparative dimension although we also welcome national case studies. The idea is to combine theoretical approaches with applied research as well as work carried out from the perspective of care regimes and migration.
Convenors:
| Margarita León | Costanzo Ranci | |
| Lecturer European Social Policy School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research University of Kent E-mail: m.leon@kent.ac.uk Tel. +44 1227 459799 |
Professor of Social Policy and Economic Sociology Polytechnic of Milan, Italy E-mail: costanzo.ranci@polimi.it Tel +39 022399 5459 |
Thursday, 14:00-16:00 Room 05, Session 12.1/A
Presentations:
1. Antje Eichler: Changing care-policies between substitutions and supplement. Regulating the grey care markets. Austria and Germany in comparison [abstract] [paper]
2. Lamura Giovanni, Di Rosa Mirko, Melchiorre Maria Gabriella, Chiatti Carlos: The interaction between migrant care workers, family carers and professional services in the elder care sector: empirical evidence from Italy [abstract] [paper]
3. Sigrid Rand and Christa Larsen: no title (TBA later) [abstract] [paper]
4. Hildegard Theobald: Migrant family carers in Austria and Germany: The interplay of policy developments related to long-term care, migration and Europeanisation [abstract] [paper]
Contributed papers:
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Thursday, 16:30-18:30 Room 05, Session 12.1/B
Presentations:
1. Raquel Martínez Buján: Social Policy, International Migration and Care Work. The Spanish Case. [abstract] [paper]
2. Sonya Michel: Filling the gaps: Migrants and care work in Europe and North America [abstract] [paper]
3. August Österle and Gudrun Bauer: Migrant Personal Carers in Private Households: Motivations and Perspectives [abstract] [paper]
4. Franca van Hooren: Varieties of migrant care work: contrasting patterns of migrant labour in social care in Italy and England [abstract] [paper]
Contributed papers:
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Friday, 9:00-11:00 Room 05, Session 12.1/C
Presentations
1. Flavia Piperno: The impact of female emigration on the Care diamond [abstract] [paper]
2. Minna Zechner: Transnational caring activities challenging national care policies [abstract] [paper]
Contributed papers:
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Important dates
17 November 2009 = Call for stream convenors
18 December 2009 = Deadline for stream convenors
25 January 2010 = Call for abstracts
29 March 2010 = Deadline for abstract submission
3 May 2010 = Registration starts
6 June 2010 = Reduced fee application deadline
21 June 2010 24:00 (CET) = Early bird registration deadline
13 August 2010 24:00 (CET) - Deadline for submission of papers
16 August 2010 - Deadline for Registrations and payments
Registration fee is 160 Euros for early birds, 210 Euros for late birds. Central and Eastern European PhD students and professionals can apply for a reduced fee of 60 Euros at info@espanet2010.net until 6th June.
Registration opens on the 3rd May, early bird registration closes on the 21th June at 24:00 (CET).
Theme of the Conference
The theme of ESPAnet’s 2010 Annual Conference is the social consequences of the global financial crisis and its differential impact across Europe. The main questions for consideration include:
How is the crisis affecting already existing inequalities? How are different social classes and groups, especially those in poverty, affected by the crisis? What are the adaptable capacities of the different “worlds of welfare”? Does the intensifying social vulnerability lead to the re-structuring of the programs to provide more security? How far have new programs been developed, and how far have new questions of social policy and welfare been opened up by the crisis?
We would like to broaden the horizon of social policy analysis and see global environmental concerns taken into account: How far are responses to the crisis re-thinking the role of the national and international/global state and the role of the European Union in creating economically, socially and environmentally sustainable societies?