Outsourcing Equality: Migrant Care Worker Imaginary in Finnish Media

Nordberg, Camilla

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“…Comparisons to Nordberg's (2016) analysis of Finnish media imagery concerning migrant care workers can readily be made here. Nordberg (2016) noted, for example, that the Finnish media imagery concerning migrant care workers depicts them as disciplined, hardworking, and as people "with a strong repertoire of flexible strategies on how to manage their wealth and well-being in relation to a distant 'real home'" (Nordberg 2016: 111). Although the idea that migrant care workers are hardworking is also found in our material, the notion that they are "agents selling their labor to the Finnish welfare state, compensated by money transfers" is not part of the Swedish public discourse.…”

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“…In addition,Lindblom and Torres (2011) presented results from the Swedish material covering the period 1995-2008, while Torres 2017 revealed how migrant care workers were described in a 3-page-long piece for a Special Issue of Sociologisk Forskning. In addition, and as already mentioned,Nordberg (2016) presented the ways in which Finnish newspapers have written about migrant care workers during the years 2003 and 2013.…”

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“…Culture-Appropriate Care Nordberg (2016) ended her analysis of the Finnish media imagery on migrant care workers by alluding to the fact that the daily newspaper reporting she focuses on (2003-2013) seems to be characterized by ambiguity. On the one hand, migrant care workers are depicted in her data corpus as "entrepreneurial, skillful, and flexible labor force," while, on the other, they are depicted as "childish family-oriented women who are out of place" (Nordberg 2016: 112).…”

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Migrant care workers in elderly care: what a study of media representations suggests about Sweden as a caring democracy

Torres¹,

Lindblom²

2020

Int J Ageing Later Life

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This article sheds light on the ways in which migrant care workers in the elderly care sector were represented in Swedish daily newspaper articles published between 1995 and 2017 (n = 370); it uses the notions of the “ethics of care” and “caring democracy” as a prism through which the findings can be made sense of. By bringing attention to the fact that they are often described as the solution par excellence to the staffing crisis Swedish elderly care is experiencing, this article draws attention to portrayals of these workers as people who are both particularly good at caring and capable of providing culture-appropriate care. Thus, although depicted as “particular Others,” these workers are represented as an asset to the sector – a sector that is thought to offer much needed but highly undervalued services. By bringing attention to both of these representations, and using the theoretical and conceptual framework “ethics of care” formulated by Tronto, the article questions whether Sweden – a country often described as the epitome of an egalitarian society – can be regarded as a caring democracy.

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Migrant care workers in elderly care: what a study of media representations suggests about Sweden as a caring democracy

Torres¹,

Lindblom²

2020

Int J Ageing Later Life

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“…first, a study by Weicht ( 2010), which analyzed Austrian discourses on migrant caring by bringing attention to both newspaper articles and focus group discussions about these workers; second, a study by Nordberg (2016), which analyzed Finnish media representations of migrant care workers using data collected in collaboration with the present authors (as described below).…”

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Int J Ageing Later Life

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“…There is a growing scholarly interest in the relationship between the welfare state and migration e.g. ; EU citizens' cross-border access to social benefits (see Blauberger and Schmidt 2014), consequences of immigration for the welfare states (see Brochmann and Hagelund 2011;Forsander 2004 Freeman andMirilovic 2016), the effects of immigration on the majority populations' support for the welfare state (Freeman 1986;Goldschmidt 2015); the chances for migrant inclusion within European welfare states (Geddes 2003); the role of migrant workers in care work (Nordberg 2016), the generosity of different Final (pre publication) version submitted to the Journal of International Migration and Integration, 12 June 2018 3 welfare states towards immigrants (Römer 2017), migrants' access to social rights ( Bech et al 2017;Giralt and Sarlo 2017;Noy and Voorend 2016). What is common for these studies is that they mainly focus on the effects of immigration on the welfare states or on legal questions related to individuals' access to welfare.…”

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Estonian Migrants’ Aspiration for Social Citizenship in Finland: Embracing the Finnish Welfare State and Distancing from the ‘Non-Deserving’

Alho

Сиппола

2018

Int. Migration & Integration

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The consequences of immigration for the welfare states has received increased attention by scholars and in political and media debates in Europe. However, migrants' subjective understandings of the welfare state remains an understudied research topic. This study aims to address the topic by analysing the question in the Nordic context by looking at Estonian labour migrants' understandings of the Finnish welfare state. Our data consists of 51 biographical interviews with Estonian migrants in Finland. Based on the interviews, we traced interviewees' attitudes towards the Finnish welfare state.In Finland, Estonians aspire for social citizenship, which in their case refers to gaining economic welfare and embracing Finnish welfare state institutions. This aspiration for social citizenship is revealed in Estonians' 'identity talk', which takes two forms: embracement and distancing. By embracement, we mean their positive sentiments towards the institutions and norms of the Finnish welfare state. The interviewees highlight their participation in the labour market, diligent payment of taxes, justified use of the welfare benefits and services offered by the Finnish state, and membership in trade unions and unemployment funds. The interviewees underline the link between work and the deservingness of welfare benefits. They describe themselves as deserving, which, they claim, should put them on par with native Finns. Moreover, by means of distancing, the interviewed Estonians distinguish themselves from 'others' -in their opinion-'non-deserving' migrants who 'do not contribute' to the Finnish welfare state.

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Outsourcing Equality: Migrant Care Worker Imaginary in Finnish Media

Abstract: Implications from the restructuring of Nordic eldercare include the incorporation of new categories

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