Zwischen Vermarktlichung und Europäisierung

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“…Other studies stress the important role agencies play in facilitating complicated bureaucratic procedures to enable migration and in elevating standards for migrants (Goh et al 2017;Kern & Müller-Böker 2015). In Europe, scholars have noted that care agencies often work with recruitment agencies in the recruitment countries to access care workers (Bachinger 2009;Rossow & Leiber 2017). Another strategy is to encourage informal networks of carers to recommend other care workers to the agency .…”

“…Parallel to this informal care market, a formal market for LIMCs has emerged, with placement agencies as a central actor (Rossow & Leiber 2017). As calculated by the German consumer organisation and foundation Stiftung Warentest (2017), more than 250 LIMC placement agencies are active in the country.…”

“…In the German context, LIMC arrangements have been examined from different angles, with several studies analysing the working conditions, experiences, life projects and transnational relationships and household strategies of LIMCs (Ignatzi 2014;Karakayali 2010;Satola 2015;Scheiwe & Krawietz 2010). Another set of studies explores the practices of agencies recruiting and placing LIMCs in private households Rossow & Leiber 2017;Tießler-Marenda 2012), and others discuss the ethical dimensions of this type of working arrangement (Apitzsch & Schmidbauer 2010;Emunds 2016). As yet, relatively little is known about the role of German families in the whole process; for example, how the decision to hire an LIMC is negotiated, how relationships are constructed or how older people in need of LTC perceive their situations.…”

“…Geoforum 40(1): 25-33. Rossow, V. & Leiber, S. (2017) The Emergence of Home Care Agencies "It'd gradually gotten worse. At some point, it was too much for me.…”

“…In Europe, the commercialisation of home care has been accompanied by the emergence of private, for-profit care agencies, who recruit circularly migrating care workers from Eastern European countries and place them in households in the wealthier EU countries (Lutz 2008Triandafyllidou & Marchetti 2013). In Germany and Austria, the surge of live-in care for the elderly was sparked by the introduction of the free movement of workers agreement (AFMP) and the Posted Workers Directive, which allows agencies based in recruitment countries to send workers to provide services on a temporary basis (Bachinger 2009;Österle et al 2013;Rossow & Leiber 2017). Switzerland does not allow the posting of workers, but it has gradually introduced the AFMP through bilateral agreements with the EU, rather later than EU member countries.…”