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Migrant care workers in ageing societies: research findings in the United Kingdom
— report | | Author(s) | Alessio Cangiano, Isabel Shutes, Sarah Spencer |
| Corporate Author | COMPAS (ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society), University of Oxford |
| Publisher | COMPAS (Electronic format only), Oxford, July 2009 |
| Pages | 240 pp |
| Source | COMPAS (ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society) I University of Oxford, 58 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6QS. website:www.compas.ox.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Immigrants ; Employees ; Services ; Care support workers ; Care home staff ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The authors draw on new data to consider the extent to which migrants may be needed to meet an expanding demand for care services, and to examine the implications for employers, older people, their families and the migrants themselves. The focus is on the UK (and on the situation in England in most detail), and they report the findings of one of four country studies conducted in parallel in the UK, USA, Canada and the Republic of Ireland between Spring 2007 and Spring 2009. They explore and report on: policy and practice in the provision of social care for older people; migration policy and practice in the social care sector; the migrant social care workforce, including recruitment and retention; experience of the quality of care; and inequalities, discrimination and access to employment rights. They conclude that current extensive reliance on migrant workers in the provision of care for older people is not the solution to the shortage of staff in the care sector, but a symptom of the sector's inability to recruit sufficient labour to meet its needs and the prevailing conditions in the care labour market. Migrant care workers are likely to continue to play a central part in the future care system, the implications of which must be tackled in immigration and social care policies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090721201 E |
| Classmark | TJ: WK: I: QRS: QRM: 3F |
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