1st Edition
Migrant Care Workers Searching for New Horizons
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this beautifully-argued book, Karen Cristensen and Ingrid Guldvik provide a comparatively-based insight to the historical context for public care work and show how migration policies, general welfare and long-term care policies (including the cash-for-care schemes) as well as cultural differences in values in the UK and Norway set the context for how migrant care workers can realise their... Read more
Migrant Care Workers
Biography
Karen Cristensen, University of Bergen, Norway. Ingrid Guldvik, Lillehammer University College, Norway.
"Overall, I found this study to be positive antidote to the literature and media...Christensen and Guldvin's research provides us with useful details about the welfare and migration contexts within which social care workers operate in England and Norway." David Anderson, Dundee University
