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Multi-local and cross-border care loops: comparison of childcare and eldercare policies in Slovenia
- Author:
- HRZENJAK Majda
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 29(5), 2019, pp.640-652.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article provides a comparative analysis of two different care systems, childcare and eldercare, in Slovenia, an Eastern-European post-transition country, with a dual-breadwinner full-time employment regime, a relatively low level of migration and a fast growing share of the 65+ population. The analysis shows that both care systems follow two different kinds of logic of egalitarianism, which means that the national care regime is internally diversified. While care for children is public, universally accessible and defamilialistic, care for the elderly follows the principles of marketization, economy-based inequality in access and familialization. Such policies also have different implications for care mobilities: while childcare demands daily transfers between multi-local sites of care, which remained confined within the state borders, eldercare increasingly demands cross-border care loops. The comparison of both care systems along with the empirical evidence on the presence/absence of migrant care workers in care support the thesis that cross-border care mobilities emerge at points where the state with its policies is failing to adequately meet care needs of the citizens. (Edited publisher abstract)
Private markets in health and welfare: an international perspective
- Editor:
- JOHNSON Norman
- Publisher:
- Berg
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 263p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Collection of papers examining the growing role of private markets in the provision and finance of health and social welfare services in the UK, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, the United States, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. Considers whether the principal beneficiaries have been the state, the consumers, or the commercial providers. Includes papers on domiciliary and residential services, housing, and a range of health services.