Neoliberal austerity and the marketisation of elderly care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Schwiter (0000-0003-3035-657X, University of Zurich), Christian Berndt (0000-0001-5055-0180), Jasmine Truong (0000-0002-7942-9453, University of Zurich) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 379-399 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2015.1059473 |
| OpenAlex | W1505163459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 71 |
| References cited | 49 |
Taking the recent debate on austerity as a starting point, this paper discusses contradictions in current processes of neoliberalisation using the marketisation of elderly care in Switzerland as an example. Just as in other countries, an austerity rationality in public spending and the neoliberal restructuring of public health services paved the way for the emergence of private suppliers of 24 hours home care. These new agencies hire migrant women from Eastern European countries and sell packaged care services to the elderly. In so doing, they play a key role in reconfiguring care according to a market logic. They shape the working conditions of live-in migrant care workers and the definition of care itself as a marketable good. In our paper, we analyse the strategies of these new corporate intermediaries based on a market analysis and on interviews with their representatives. We argue that the marketisation of elderly care in Switzerland is illustrative of today's neoliberalism in that it combines progressive and regressive aspects and owes its emergence to its ambiguous entanglement with many other discourses. The paper illustrates how the transformation of the home into a new space of commercialised care relies on the production and economic valorisation of social and mobility differentials
Austerity · Economic growth · Economics · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Restructuring · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Working Feminism
Gender, Migration and Domestic Service
Signification, representation, ideology
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Global care chains
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Neurocapitalism and the new neuros
Austerity urbanism
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The Commodification of Care
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Emotional labour/body work
Migrant Workers in Home Care
Ein sorgender Markt
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Settled in Mobility
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Global Cinderellas
Gendered spaces of commoditised care
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The Spectacular and the Mundane
Aversions to the commodification of care
Caring for the elderly
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Women's paid work and moral economies of care
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Recentring care
The role of recruitment agencies in imagining and producing the 'good' migrant
Matching and Making Labour Demand and Supply
Global care, local configurations - challenges to conceptualizations of care
Opening the Black Box of Migration
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