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This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry
developing as a response to tackle the "old age care crisis" in
richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are
involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers
in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care
system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the
multiple levels influencing their activities. Accordingly, it
examines the significance of old age care regimes and policies as
well as intermediaries and promoters for initiating, shaping and
perpetuating old age care arrangements based on migrant labor and
the relationships within them. Particular emphasis is placed on the
risks and implications of these arrangements for the well-being and
the social protection of the different actors involved. The book
analyzes these processes and structures from a global perspective
including different countries and regions of the world.
This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry
developing as a response to tackle the "old age care crisis" in
richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are
involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers
in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care
system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the
multiple levels influencing their activities. Accordingly, it
examines the significance of old age care regimes and policies as
well as intermediaries and promoters for initiating, shaping and
perpetuating old age care arrangements based on migrant labor and
the relationships within them. Particular emphasis is placed on the
risks and implications of these arrangements for the well-being and
the social protection of the different actors involved. The book
analyzes these processes and structures from a global perspective
including different countries and regions of the world.
The reception of newcomer youngsters by schools constitutes a
policy issue in Europe already for decades. This book deals with
how practitioners in Rotterdam and Barcelona apply existing
policies for the reception of immigrant students, the dilemmas they
face and the strategies they design as a response. Using a
combination of discursive, organizational, and ethnographic
research techniques, the author studies to what extent practices
conform to policies, and to what extent they diverge from them in
basic principles. This book analyzes the influence of institutional
frameworks on the practices of policy implementers by comparing
Netherlands and Spain -specifically Barcelona and Rotterdam-, two
cases which are very different in terms of their national policies
of integration, their educational systems and their programs for
educational reception. Much can be learned over the reception
practices of secondary schools, but above all over how policy gaps
work, and the common and specific features that they present across
different countries. In short, this is an indispensable reading for
scholars, policymakers and practitioners alike, which offers new
insights about the policy-practice gap and the role of policy
practitioners in it. Download the Table of Contents and a sample
chapter
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