Transnational service provision in long term care services in Western and Eastern Europe (B07)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research ; Political Science
• Term: from 2018 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 374666841

The project addresses transnational developments in long-term care. Long-term care systems are a very recent trend in advanced democracies. These services are typically provided by female labour migrants. We analyse the consequences of the migration of female caregivers for social policies in the countries of desti-nation in their dependence on different welfare state regimes (in Germany, Italy, and Sweden). We also in-vestigate the effects of “care drain” on the social policy dynamics in the migrants’ countries of origin in their dependence on the different levels of economic prosperity (in Poland, Romania, and Ukraine).

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bremen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Karin Gottschall; Professor Dr. Heinz Rothgang