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| Globalization, women's migration, and the long-term-care workforce | | Author(s) | Colette V Browne, Kathryn L Braun |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 48, no 1, February 2008 |
| Pages | pp 16-24 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Immigrants ; Women ; Philippines ; Employment ; Health services ; Long term ; Poverty ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Developed nations are increasingly turning to immigrant women to fill the need for qualified direct long-term care (DLTC) workers (i.e., those who provide personal care to frail and disabled older people). The authors examine the impact of three global trends - population ageing, globalisation, and women's migration - on the supply and demand for DLTC workers in the United States. Following an overview of these trends, the authors identify three areas with embedded social justice issues that are shaping the DLTC workforce in the US, with a specific focus on immigrant workers in these settings. The three areas are: world poverty and economic inequalities; the feminisation and colonisation of labour (especially in LTC); and empowerment and women's rights. The contradictory effects that both population ageing and globalisation have on immigrant women, source countries (e.g. the Philippines) and the LTC workforce in the US are discussed; and policy, practice and research implications and questions are raised. For policy-makers and LTC administrators in receiver nations such as the US, the meeting of DLTC worker needs with immigrants may result in greater access to needed employees, but also in the continued devaluation of eldercare as a profession. Source (supply) nations must balance the real and potential economic benefits of remittances from women who migrate for work with the negative consequences of disrupting family care traditions and draining the LTC workforce of those countries. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080819201 A |
| Classmark | TJ: SH: 7XK: WJ: L: 4Q: W6: 3F: 7T |
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