Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 3041 - 3063
Published: May 23, 2024
Language: Английский
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 3021 - 3040
Published: May 24, 2024
This paper discusses the COVID-19 pandemic as a new external challenge to transnational family life that can undermine care arrangements and intentions developed by families of Polish migrants following 2004 EU enlargement. The pandemic, associated lockdowns travel restrictions raise questions about assumed transnationalism, building upon earlier concerns taking for granted migrants' cross-national mobility. Based on focus group discussions with grandparents conducted in July 2020 March 2021, we analyse pandemic's impact intergenerational relations both geographically close distant kin. We point perceptions risks ethnicised stereotypes evolving time. While caused temporary mobility, it shows immobilising side "unsettling events"], consequences which, privileged migrants, will unfold time their parents' age require personal care.
Language: Английский
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 2977 - 2998
Published: May 23, 2024
The restrictions to international travel during the COVID-19 pandemic have posed significant barriers transnational family life. This paper focusses on negotiation of familial obligations over 300 young EU nationals aged 14–25 living in Britain. We examine how care practices were reconfigured within families, as forced immobility, absence and loss became part Young people's agency was activated engage desirable circulations care, while they also engaged acts citizenship locally that had a dimension. Many people contributed local initiatives caring for others, such mutual aid groups extending non-familial relations. thus range receiving giving resources involved, including material resources, time, affection sharing information. These involved members or at distance, but relations, shape new constellations care.
Language: Английский
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 2999 - 3020
Published: May 23, 2024
This research examined how migrant care workers in eldercare institutions Germany were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on their personal experiences. The is theoretically grounded intersectionality and prisoner of love framework. Drawing 15 qualitative interviews with (MCWs) from Poland Bosnia–Herzegovina, main findings highlight that intersecting social positions play an important role stratifying experiences for MCWs. Migrant high skill levels job security stressed similarities to non-migrant colleagues day-to-day work during foregrounding shared professional self-image creating solidarity between all backgrounds. Strong workplace relationships, emphasising identity, adapting career plans ways mitigate negative effects pandemic. study's results emphasise need a more balanced portrayal pandemic's impact workers.
Language: Английский
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 3064 - 3083
Published: May 23, 2024
This article addresses experiences of transnational end-of-life care among aging Filipina migrants before and during COVID-19. de Leon the emotional costs associated with loving losing kin from a distance both pandemic, drawing on their autobiographical account distant by proxy aunt's wake funeral. Blower-Nassiri highlights exacerbated fears anxieties around dying, illness, migrants, two life histories retired nurses who recalled moments loss being absent for events, such as funerals, pandemic. Together, provide an intimate portrait three migrants' loss. They further address limitations course framework in consideration how carries on, across generations through practices rituals that signal accrual over time.
Language: Английский
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 2938 - 2957
Published: May 23, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that when formal care services closed down, informal burden was unequally transferred to women. Women across the world became part of "caregiver pools". Using textual archive material collected by Finnish Literature Society, we analyse transformation elder practices in Finland. We adopt a mobility and process perspective how transformed due social distancing measures restricted ageing individuals their family members' local translocal mobilities. find over 70-year-olds had adapt daily mobilities according risk assessment. Caregiving provided mostly female members replaced digital at distance, which reinforced existing inequalities care. argue simultaneously brought about both time–space compression what call expansion affected everyday
Language: Английский
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 2958 - 2976
Published: May 23, 2024
All over Europe, the question of sustainable care for older people gains attention. Although number migrants is increasing significantly, to date only little empirical research deals with migrant family care. In this paper, we thus give an overview theoretical models on and wellbeing adjust them (different groups of) across Europe. We then present (rare) studies (in-) formal wellbeing, asking: do give/use more likely than natives if so, why? Are caregivers or less burdened compared non-migrant caregivers? How did pandemic affect Based our assessments state quantitative highlight limitations propose paths future in families.
Language: Английский
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 3041 - 3063
Published: May 23, 2024
Language: Английский
Citations
1