Matouš Jelínek
Biographic Data
| ID | 198289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matouš Jelínek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matouš |
| FAMILY NAME | Jelínek |
| SIGNATURE | JELÍNEK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9650-0912 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Institutional care across borders: How care relocation (re)articulates sediments of German histories of East-Central Europe
Based on fieldwork in care homes in Silesia, Poland, and the former Sudetenland in the Czech Republic, we analyze how institutional care can re-articulate contested pasts, and how care relocation from Germany makes this capacity visible. Drawing on Koselleck’s notion of “historical sediments,” we show how pasts become repercussive beyond linear causality as layered relations that surface through co-presence, language regimes, and the practical or…
Care Outsourcing From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe
The transnational care market in Europe is commonly understood as the migration of (mostly) female care workers from East to West. Less attention has been paid to a reverse mobility: older persons relocating from West to East in search of more affordable care. This article presents research on care homes in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary that cater both to local, relatively wealthy seniors and to clients from Germany who move t…
Mobilizing and Balancing Differences: Care Relocation as the Work of Transnational Acting
This article explores the organizational aspects of care relocation of German seniors to care homes for older adults in the Czech border regions. It examines the role of care entrepreneurs as transnational actors linking diverse contexts in order to create sustainable business projects. It conceptualizes their endeavours as the work of transnational acting grounded in geographic arbitrage, whereby socioeconomic disparities are not merely exploite…
Shared language as a scarce resource: Organizing communication in care homes with foreign clientele
In the border regions of the Czech Republic, a new phenomenon of care homes catering to German seniors has arisen. Located in underprivileged regions and competing with significantly higher salaries on the German side of the border, care homes here lack German-speaking care workers. Communication between (Czech) care workers and (German-speaking) seniors is thus a burning issue for the homes and a matter to be organized. In this article, I link s…
How to close down a care home in 24 hours: Privatisation, fragmentation, and ambiguous quality regulation in senior long-term care in the Czech Republic
Long-term care in the Czech Republic is characterized by workforce and service shortages; care homes often do not have a good reputation and are considered a last resort. What high-quality care should look like and how it can be ensured is controversial in this context. The paper studies these questions using the example of a small, private care home for Czech as well as German-speaking seniors that had been shut down abruptly with residents bein…
Constructing professional services: For-profit care and domestic work agencies in the Czech Republic
Constructing professional services: For-profit care and domestic work agencies in the Czech Republic
How to close down a care home in 24 hours: Privatisation, fragmentation, and ambiguous quality regulation in senior long-term care in the Czech Republic
Long-term care in the Czech Republic is characterized by workforce and service shortages; care homes often do not have a good reputation and are considered a last resort. What high-quality care should look like and how it can be ensured is controversial in this context. The paper studies these questions using the example of a small, private care home for Czech as well as German-speaking seniors that had been shut down abruptly with residents bein…
Constructing professional services: For-profit care and domestic work agencies in the Czech Republic
Shared language as a scarce resource: Organizing communication in care homes with foreign clientele
In the border regions of the Czech Republic, a new phenomenon of care homes catering to German seniors has arisen. Located in underprivileged regions and competing with significantly higher salaries on the German side of the border, care homes here lack German-speaking care workers. Communication between (Czech) care workers and (German-speaking) seniors is thus a burning issue for the homes and a matter to be organized. In this article, I link s…
How to close down a care home in 24 hours: Privatisation, fragmentation, and ambiguous quality regulation in senior long-term care in the Czech Republic
Long-term care in the Czech Republic is characterized by workforce and service shortages; care homes often do not have a good reputation and are considered a last resort. What high-quality care should look like and how it can be ensured is controversial in this context. The paper studies these questions using the example of a small, private care home for Czech as well as German-speaking seniors that had been shut down abruptly with residents bein…
Institutional care across borders: How care relocation (re)articulates sediments of German histories of East-Central Europe
Based on fieldwork in care homes in Silesia, Poland, and the former Sudetenland in the Czech Republic, we analyze how institutional care can re-articulate contested pasts, and how care relocation from Germany makes this capacity visible. Drawing on Koselleck’s notion of “historical sediments,” we show how pasts become repercussive beyond linear causality as layered relations that surface through co-presence, language regimes, and the practical or…
Care Outsourcing From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe
The transnational care market in Europe is commonly understood as the migration of (mostly) female care workers from East to West. Less attention has been paid to a reverse mobility: older persons relocating from West to East in search of more affordable care. This article presents research on care homes in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary that cater both to local, relatively wealthy seniors and to clients from Germany who move t…
Mobilizing and Balancing Differences: Care Relocation as the Work of Transnational Acting
This article explores the organizational aspects of care relocation of German seniors to care homes for older adults in the Czech border regions. It examines the role of care entrepreneurs as transnational actors linking diverse contexts in order to create sustainable business projects. It conceptualizes their endeavours as the work of transnational acting grounded in geographic arbitrage, whereby socioeconomic disparities are not merely exploite…
Czech (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (3 works) · Care work (2 works) · German (2 works) · Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Relocation (2 works)