Seeking Care in the Neighboring Country
An Institutional Analysis of Transnational Care for Older People Between Slovenia and Croatia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7419481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Majda Hrženjak (0000-0003-1809-5450, Peace Institute- Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Issue | 62 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Two Homelands (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0353-6777 • E-ISSN: 1581-1212 |
| Publisher | The Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3986/2025.2.8 |
| OpenAlex | W4413959460 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
Using the concepts of care gap, transnationalization of care, and retirement migration—and based on interviews with stakeholders and an institutional analysis of care provision for older people in Slovenia and Croatia—the article examines retirement care migration between the two countries. It shows that the marketization of care in Croatia matches the care gap in public provision in Slovenia, which establishes “precarious hybrid transnational care.” Older people use two strategies—citizenship rights and the market—to access cheaper residential care across the border, though of lower quality than in Slovenia. The study shows that transnational care can arise out of specific national institutional configurations of care
Economic growth · Economics · Older people · Political science · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Gerontology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |