The international and interdisciplinary research project, with a team of experts in the fields of labor, mobility, care, and ageing studies, addresses several broad research questions: How is the transnational organization of senior care from and within the CEE countries shaped, formalized, professionalized, and politicized in and across the different countries? How is the senior care market in the CEE countries changing as a result of developments within transnational care migration? What do these developments mean for CEE: migrant care workers, their families, communities, labor markets, and welfare states?
The Romanian case study explores the institutionalization and marketization of senior care in Romania. As a result of mass migration over the past two decades, the country has experienced a serious care drain that affects several generations. Coupled with the shrinking role of the welfare state, this has resulted in the reorganization of intergenerational care strategies and the emergence of new forms of organized and professionalized care. The sub-project investigates the ways senior care is organized and the emerging new forms of senior care arrangements that involve outsourcing and monetization, and that remove care from the private family realm.
CareOrg is funded within the programme “Challenges and Potentials for Europe” by the Volkswagen Foundation.
