A Right to Care? Immigration Controls and the Care Labour of Non-Citizens

Abstract

Migrant labour has increasingly played a role in the provision of care for older people across Europe, and in other countries and regions (Bettio et al., 2006; Cangiano et al., 2009; León, 2010; Michel and Peng, 2012; Österle and Hammer, 2007). The employment of migrant, ‘non-citizen’ workers in care provision has taken place in the context of, on the one hand, increasing demand for care and, on the other, the marketization of care provision in many countries (Shutes and Chiatti, 2012). In England, marketization processes have involved both the expansion of private sector providers of publicly and privately funded care services for older people, including residential and home care services, and the expansion of the purchasing of care services directly by older people and their families, including the employment of care workers in private households (Shutes and Chiatti, 2012). It has likewise taken place in the context of increasing diversification of the immigration status and the rights and entitlements of non-citizens, including migrant care workers (Spencer, 2011).KeywordsMigrant WorkerAsylum SeekerImmigration StatusHome Care ServiceWork PermitThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.