‘Care Bonds’ in Times of COVID-19

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
‘Care Bonds’ in Times of COVID-19
Original language description
This chapter draws on ethnographic research in order to examine the experiences of Czech live-in care workers who worked in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applying Didier Fassin's definition of a 'moral economy' (Fassin, 2009), I analyse the moral status of decisions made in the context of pandemic measures and the associated circulation of values, feelings and emotions (Fassin and Fourcade, 2021). Furthermore, the chapter explores the 'everyday economies' manifested in care workers' narratives and shared experiences of the new rules put in place to contain the pandemic. It focuses on the perspective of a sending country while analysing how Czech live-in care workers coped with the introduction of the new biopolitical measures at the borders and how pandemic regulations (including testing and vaccination policies) affected their circular cross-border mobility. Besides this, it discusses the role of communication on social media platforms, which acquired a key function in providing virtual support, disseminating pandemic-related information and knowledge and forging individual and collective resilience vis-a-vis the specific modus operandi of care mobility in times of epidemic risks.
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Home Care for Sale: The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe
ISBN
978-1-5296-8014-0
Number of pages of the result
15
Pages from-to
127-141
Number of pages of the book
352
Publisher name
Sage
Place of publication
London
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