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 diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Within these contexts, older people both actively contribute to and are affected by border-crossing processes. In addition, while some may voluntarily opt for adding a transnational dimension to their lives, others may have less choice in the matter. Transnational aging, therefore, provides a critical lens on how older people shape, organize and cope with life in contexts that are no longer bound to the frame of a single nation-state. Accordingly, the book emphasizes the agency of older people as well as the personal and structural constraints of their situations. The chapters in this book reveal these aspects by approaching transnational aging from different methodological angles, such as ethnographic research, comparative studies, quantitative data, and policy and discourse analysis. Geographically, the chapters cover a wide range of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, such as Namibia, Thailand, Russia, Germany, the United States and Ecuador.

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 diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Within these contexts, older people both actively contribute to and are affected by border-crossing processes. In addition, while some may voluntarily opt for adding a transnational dimension to their lives, others may have less choice in the matter. Transnational aging, therefore, provides a critical lens on how older people shape, organize and cope with life in contexts that are no longer bound to the frame of a single nation-state. Accordingly, the book emphasizes the agency of older people as well as the personal and structural constraints of their situations. The chapters in this book reveal these aspects by approaching transnational aging from different methodological angles, such as ethnographic research, comparative studies, quantitative data, and policy and discourse analysis. Geographically, the chapters cover a wide range of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, such as Namibia, Thailand, Russia, Germany, the United States and Ecuador.

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: 1,3, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, 176 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt die Erwerbssituation von spanischen Frauen aus einer international vergleichenden Perspektive. Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist ein weiterhin niedriges Frauenerwerbsniveau in Spanien, welches den Architekten eines "new welfare state" zufolge eines der grossten Hemmnisse auf dem Weg zu einem neuen demographischen, sozialen und okonomischen Gleichgewicht moderner Wohlfahrtstaaten darstellt. Den Argumenten des Konzeptes eines "adult-worker"-Modells folgend werden dementsprechend die besonderen Herausforderungen des spanischen Wohlfahrsstaates dargestellt, zu denen auch das zunehmende Verschwinden der sog. "supermujeres" aus dem gesellschaftlichen Bild zu rechnen ist. Aus dem internationalen Vergleich ergibt sich alsdann die Schlussfolgerung, dass insbesondere Spanien auf eine erhohte Beteilung von Frauen am Arbeitsmarkt angewiesen ist. Der Hauptteil der Arbeit setzt sich deshalb mit den institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen und kulturellen Pfadabhangigkeiten der Frauenerwerbstatigkeit in Spanien auseinander, wobei ebenso humankapitalistische als auch soziodemographische Faktoren ins Explanans miteinbezogen werden. Der Analyse der einzelnen Faktoren folgt deren Verflechtung und Verdichtung zu einem Erklarungsansatz, der neben mangelhafter Vereinbarkeitsmoglichkeiten von Familie und Beruf auch auf die traditionelle Geschlechterkultur, den Einfluss des Alters und des Bildungsniveaus sowie auf die geschlechtsspezifische Segmentierung des Arbeitsmarktes verweist.