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Family Carers’ Expectations and Strategies in Shaping Live-in Migrant Carer Arrangements: A Comparison Between Germany and the Netherlands

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This chapter analyzes different old-age care regimes with regard to the expectations family carers have vis-á-vis live-in migrant carer arrangements and the strategies they develop to shape them. It compares data from interviews with family carers in Germany and the Netherlands. While Germany’s old-age care regime places a high responsibility and financial burden on the family, the Netherlands provides a broad range of publicly funded health and social care services. The analysis reveals both differences and similarities between family carers in both countries. It shows that family carers in Germany rather favor family-like arrangements, whereas family carers in the Netherlands put greater emphasis on professional training and complying with labor laws.

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    For the Dutch part, the study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Law and Nijmegen School of Management of Radboud University Nijmegen (registration number 2016.11). For the German part, no ethical approval was requested by the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

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Acknowledgments

The research project ‘Emergence and Significance of Transnational Elderly Care Arrangements’ (ESTRANCA) has been enabled by research funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in the framework of the Open Research Area (ORA) for the social sciences.

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  2. Faculty of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Anita Böcker

  3. Center for Migration Law/Sociology of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    María Bruquetas-Callejo

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Horn, V., Schweppe, C., Böcker, A., Bruquetas-Callejo, M. (2021). Family Carers’ Expectations and Strategies in Shaping Live-in Migrant Carer Arrangements: A Comparison Between Germany and the Netherlands. In: Horn, V., Schweppe, C., Böcker, A., Bruquetas-Callejo, M. (eds) The Global Old Age Care Industry. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2237-3_3

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