Long-term care in EU policy 1999-2022: women's responsibility, migrants' work?

Elena Zacharenko

doi:10.1111/jcms.13476

Long-term care in EU policy 1999-2022: women's responsibility, migrants' work?

Elena Zacharenko

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Abstract

As the population of the European Union (EU) is ageing and its working-age population shrinking, concerns are rising about how the growing demand for long-term care (LTC) will be met. Since unpaid care, provided mainly by women, is increasingly scarce, some EU states are becoming dependent on migrant labour for the functioning of their elder care systems. To address the growing deficit of care in the EU, the European Commission put forward a European Care Strategy, for the first time proposing a stand-alone policy on LTC. This followed on from a Commission proposal for a new strategy on migration, calling for labour migrants to be proactively attracted to work in the EU's care sector. As the (lack of) availability of LTC is increasingly shaping EU policy, it is timely to investigate what its impact is on key policy areas, such as gender equality, social and migration policies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	38-54
Journal	Journal of Common Market Studies
Volume	62
Issue number	1
Early online date	Mar 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13476
Publication status	Published - 2023
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

The author would like to thank the following individuals for their comments and suggestions which helped to greatly improve this article: her supervisors, Anna Elomäki and Johanna Kantola; participants of the panel ‘Gender Equality in the European Mainstream?’ held during the July 2022 European Conference on Politics and Gender in Ljubljana, in particular Michał Gulczyński; participants of the September 2022 PhD course organized by the Tampere University Gender Studies Department ‘Contestations of Gender Equality in Contemporary Europe: Anti‐Equality Politics and East‐West Tensions’; Lynda Gilby; and the two anonymous reviewers. She is grateful to the people interviewed for this article for their time and expertise, and to the Kone Foundation for providing funding for this research.

Keywords

gender equality
international political economy/economics
migration policy
public policy
social policy

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Business and International Management
General Business,Management and Accounting
Economics and Econometrics
Political Science and International Relations

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