Contextualizing Migrants in Care Work

This chapter provides the insights of the creative individual development of transnational ways of life and life projects created by migrants&s; interpretation and handling of historical national and the transnational structural conditions. A central characteristic of the barriers was related to migrant care workers as a so-called a hard-to-reach-group. It often seems that those who are affected by migration policies are totally determined by the national and global conditions. Fiona Williams, a British social policy academic, has, as mentioned, criticized some of the one-sidedness in this literature. Social mobility is a phenomenon of specific interest to the discussion of migrants, as emigration from one&s;s home country is often related to people&s;s active effort to achieve upwards mobility. The chapter also examines the organizational differences in care work in the two countries that may account for greater feelings of being downgraded among some of those going to the UK than those going to Norway.

Care work · Sociology · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Migration and Labor Dynamics