Everyday Vulnerability: Work and Health Experiences of Live-in Migrant Care Workers in Taiwan

Liang, Li-Fang

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-2237-3_10

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“…They mentioned physical labour and care knowledge and skills. Liang (forthcoming) examines the work conditions of live-in migrant care workers and demonstrates how the lack of proper occupational training affects their mental health and well-being. Relevant here, the dynamics and complexities of care work and care relationships compound the challenges face.…”

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Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan

Liang¹

2021

Social Policy and Society

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This article uses Taiwan as an example to examine how families manage work and care when the government and workplace provide limited support. Many Taiwanese households employ live-in migrant care workers to negotiate care responsibilities and adults’ paid jobs. Based on interviews with employers of live-in migrant care workers and workers, the findings demonstrate that daughters-in-law and occasionally daughters and sons become employers of live-in migrant care workers because of the limitation of public care services and lack of support they receive in seeking to combine paid work and family care responsibility. Even after employing migrant workers, women retain greater care responsibility in daily practices than their husbands. Hiring live-in migrant care workers also imposes risks to all parties involved in the processes of organising, coordinating, and providing care due to the uncertainty of care quality and the nature of care work.

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Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan

Liang¹

2021

Social Policy and Society

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“…Three-quarters of the participants in this study worked more than 8 h per day. Working for extended hours with unstable work schedules is a global phenomenon among migrant care workers (46,47). While non-shift workers have been found to have an elevated risk of insomnia with prolonged day time working hours (48), the situation could be worse for live-in care workers who must adapt to irregular split-schedule sleep (9,46).…”

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“…Working for extended hours with unstable work schedules is a global phenomenon among migrant care workers (46,47). While non-shift workers have been found to have an elevated risk of insomnia with prolonged day time working hours (48), the situation could be worse for live-in care workers who must adapt to irregular split-schedule sleep (9,46). Notably, in this study, working hours were found to exhibit an adverse impact on sleep quality only in the adjusted model.…”

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The associations between working conditions and subjective sleep quality among female migrant care workers

Chen

Lin

Chien

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundSubjective sleep quality may reflect the mental well-being of migrant care workers; however, the related occupational factors remain unclear. This study examines the association between the characteristics of care labor and the subjective sleep quality of female migrants.MethodsIn this cross-sectional study, Southeast Asian migrant care workers in Taiwan were recruited using convenience sampling. Data on working conditions, including workplace setting, wage, working hours, psychiatric symptoms of care recipients, and sleep quality measured using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), were collected through computer-assisted personal interviews. Multiple linear regression analyses were performed to determine the independent relationship between working conditions and the PSQI global score.ResultsThere were 220 institution-(47.7%) and home-based (52.3%) care workers, and 47.7% had a PSQI score higher than 5. After controlling for covariates, the lowest tertile of wages and daily working hours (> 8 h) were independently correlated with poor sleep quality. Moreover, in the stepwise regression model, wage and working hours remained the most explainable correlates of poor sleep quality.ConclusionThis study lent support to the notion that low wages and long working hours are significant occupational factors that negatively impact the subjective sleep quality of female Southeast Asian migrant care workers in Taiwan.

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Exploring the association between sleep and health performance of migrant home care workers and elderly care recipients in Taiwan

Kuo,

Restinia,

Lin

et al. 2024

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

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Everyday Vulnerability: Work and Health Experiences of Live-in Migrant Care Workers in Taiwan

Cited by 4 publications

References 39 publications

Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan

Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan

The associations between working conditions and subjective sleep quality among female migrant care workers

Exploring the association between sleep and health performance of migrant home care workers and elderly care recipients in Taiwan

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