Towards a scarcity of care – structural deficiencies and inequalities of the live-in care market in the EU

Please register here for the online event “Towards a scarcity of care – structural deficiencies and inequalities of the live-in care market in the EU”

• Date and time: Wednesday, 23 June 2021, 14:00-15:30 (GMT+2)

• Language: English with Hungarian simultaneous translation

• Partner: FES Brussels

Demographic aging and neoliberal policy making lead us to a growing crisis of care. A competitive care market has developed that largely builds on cheap labour force. The precarity long-term care workers find themselves in is especially pronounced in live-in care arrangements. Our newest discussion paper titled “The dependency on East-to-West care labour migration in the EU: addressing inequalities and exploitation of live-in carers” written by Noémi Katona and Elena Zacharenko raises some of the difficulties of live-in carers and also suggests some directions for improving their working conditions. The paper will be presented and afterwards discussed.

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Here You can find the discussion paper.