CALL FOR PAPERS – Workshop on ‘Ageing Migrants’
IMISCOE Annual Conference “Crisis and Migration – Perceptions, Challenges and Consequences”, Malmö, Sweden, 26-27 August 2013
Session 2
CARE FOR AND BY AGEING MIGRANTS
Organized by: Dr. Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu, researcher, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland and Dr. Mihaela Nedelcu, Associate Professor, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Given the age characteristic of the population under focus, care is one of the essential elements of well-being. Care is a very complex concept, capturing emotional, social and medical care. Care is provided by different agents in a variety of settings: by the state or the market, in institutions as well as at home or informally by (irregular) migrants and relatives. Family members and particularly women are the main care providers. Care does not always presuppose co-presence and in today’s increasingly globalised and mobile societies, care often cuts across national borders. The issues to be discussed revolve around the concrete strategies used by migrants and non-migrants to provide care (both at proximity and at a distance), as well as the complementarity between welfare state institutions, transnational family arrangements and the use of technology in regard to ageing processes and the wellbeing of ageing migrants.
The session welcome papers that discuss both “care for” and “care by” ageing migrants. It intends to underline the double position of ageing migrants as receivers and providers of care. With regard to the former, we invite papers that look at the emerging care needs of the heterogeneous group of ageing migrants. Particular focus is put on the relation between ageing migrants and the local welfare and health services. Very relevant are care provisions in different languages and access to social and medical care. Referring to “care by” ageing migrants, the literature on active ageing underlines that older migrants engage in intergenerational transfers within and outside their families. Taking care of grandchildren or of the children of acquaintances can assure an active life and make ageing persons feel useful.
To submit a paper for this session, please send a Word document with the paper title and an abstract of no more than 500 words, together with your name and institutional affiliation, to Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu ([log in to unmask]) or Mihaela Nedelcu ([log in to unmask]) no later than 31st May 2013.
Accepted participants will be notified by June 15, 2013. They are required to send full-length papers (no more than 60’000 characters) by 10 August 2013. To facilitate discussion and exchanges, these papers will be circulated in advance to workshop participants. Time for presentation will be 20 minutes. It is expected that a selection of papers will be published as an edited volume or a special issue.
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