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Caring for a Living - Migrant Women, Aging Citizens, and Italian Families (Hardcover)
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Caring for a Living - Migrant Women, Aging Citizens, and Italian Families (Hardcover)
Series: International Policy Exchange Series
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Today's world is aging at a great speed, and although increased
longevity represents one of the greatest achievements of the last
century, the extension of life expectancy does not necessarily
correspond to an extension of healthy lives. Aging populations,
particularly those with a high percentage of the oldest old, are
often burdened with chronic conditions that require extended
long-term care. Deciding who provides said care, and in what forms,
are key problems that will soon affect a growing number of
post-industrial high- and mid-income countries. iCaring for a
Livingr contributes to this debate by exploring the organization of
long-term care in Italy, a country already in the midst of an
eldercare crisis. There, the answer to this problem has taken the
shape of home eldercare assistance, an arrangement whereby
long-term care services are bought in the market in the form of
private and individualized assistance by families sometimes with
economic support provided by the State. The providers of these
services, commonly known as "badanti" (minders), are, for the most
part, im/migrant women coming from different areas of the world.
iCaring for a Livingr analyzes the emergence and development of
this arrangement and the role that the state, Italian families, and
workers themselves play in shaping and in defining it. The author
provides timely insights on: the nature of long-term care and its
requirements; the specific needs of families facing this issue; the
changing role of the neoliberal State; and the ways in which global
political and economic processes influence and shape an apparently
individually based solution to long-term care. This book is ideal
for graduate courses in sociology and anthropology, specifically in
courses related to gender and migration, work and women, social
inequality, and immigration studies.
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