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Brokering Circular Labour Migration - A Mobile Ethnography of Migrant Care Workers' Journey to Switzerland (Paperback)
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Brokering Circular Labour Migration - A Mobile Ethnography of Migrant Care Workers' Journey to Switzerland (Paperback)
Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
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This book examines the commercialisation of domestic and care work
through private agencies that organise transnational care
arrangements by brokering migrant workers. The book focuses on the
emergence of private for-profit home care agencies following the
2011 extension of the Free Movement of Workers to Eastern European
Countries agreement in Switzerland. The agencies recruit migrant
women from these countries and place them in private households for
elderly care. This book explores how circular labour migration for
these care workers is facilitated. In the form of a mobile
ethnography, it traces their journey from Eastern European
countries to Switzerland - from when care workers find employment
and are recruited by agencies to when they arrive at their
designated households. From the agencies' analytical standpoint,
the book examines the recruitment and placement practices of the
home care agencies and their role in facilitating migration.
Brokering Labour Migration offers an understanding of new migration
patterns and highlights fundamental changes in migration control
with the extension of free movement of workers in Switzerland to
lower-wage countries in Eastern Europe. It will be an invaluable
resource for academics and scholars of geography, anthropology,
sociology, and gender and migration.
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