Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Migrant care workers in elderly care : what a study of media representations suggests about Sweden as a caring democracy

Notes: Sumario: This article sheds light on the ways in which migrant care workers in the elderly care sector were represented in Swedish daily newspaper articles published between 1995 and 2017 (n = 370); it uses the notions of the ethics of care and caring democracy as a prism through which the findings can be made sense of. By bringing attention to the fact that they are often described as the solution par excellence to the staffing crisis Swedish elderly care is experiencing, this article draws attention to portrayals of these workers as people who are both particularly good at caring and capable of providing culture-appropriate care. Thus, although depicted as particular Others, these workers are represented as an asset to the sector a sector that is thought to offer much needed but highly undervalued services. By bringing attention to both of these representations, and using the theoretical and conceptual framework ethics of care formulated by Tronto, the article questions whether Sweden a country often described as the epitome of an egalitarian society can be regarded as a caring democracy.

Related records: En: International Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL) . - Los Angeles, CA : Scientific Research Publishing, 2021-2022 = ISSN 1652-8670. - 14/12/2020 Volumen 14 Número 2 - 2020 , p. 61-87Materia / lugar / evento: Ageingnomics. Economia senior Migraciones Atención domiciliaria Suecia Otros autores: Lindblom, Jonas
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