Dependencies of Long-Term Care Policy on East-West Migration: The Case of Germany

Karin Gottschall; Kristin Noack; Heinz Rothgang

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Dependencies of Long-Term Care Policy on East-West Migration: The Case of Germany

Karin Gottschall^*, Kristin Noack, Heinz Rothgang

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University of Bremen

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This contribution reconstructs the policy shift from a Bismarckian “low road” to a “higher road” of long-term care (LTC) policy in Germany. We argue that this policy change is deeply intertwined with migration to uphold and transform LTC policy. Cash benefits did not just stabilise family care, but are increasingly used to establish a “migrant-in-the-family” model. Moreover, while the marketisation of care services led to an expansion of commercial services, this process increasingly depended on migrant carers. Policy measures to improve working conditions in formal care were only initiated when ever-growing demands could not be met by migrant workers. At the same time live-in arrangements are only cautiously regulated. Reflecting the familialistic legacy, provision of care by women (paid/unpaid, formal/informal, professional/semi-professional) has become more stratified.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Impacts on Social Policy
Subtitle of host publication	Short Histories in Global Perspective
Editors	Frank Nullmeier, Delia González de Reufels, Herbert Obinger
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	40
Pages	515-529
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-86645-7
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-86644-0, 978-3-030-86647-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86645-7_40
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Name	Global Dynamics of Social Policy
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN (Print)	2661-8672
ISSN (Electronic)	2661-8680

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Gottschall, K., Noack, K., & Rothgang, H. (2022). Dependencies of Long-Term Care Policy on East-West Migration: The Case of Germany. In F. Nullmeier, D. González de Reufels, & H. Obinger (Eds.), International Impacts on Social Policy: Short Histories in Global Perspective (1 ed., pp. 515-529). (Global Dynamics of Social Policy). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86645-7_40

Gottschall, Karin ; Noack, Kristin ; Rothgang, Heinz. / Dependencies of Long-Term Care Policy on East-West Migration: The Case of Germany. International Impacts on Social Policy: Short Histories in Global Perspective. editor / Frank Nullmeier ; Delia González de Reufels ; Herbert Obinger. 1. ed. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. pp. 515-529 (Global Dynamics of Social Policy).

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Dependencies of Long-Term Care Policy on East-West Migration: The Case of Germany. / Gottschall, Karin; Noack, Kristin; Rothgang, Heinz.
International Impacts on Social Policy: Short Histories in Global Perspective. ed. / Frank Nullmeier; Delia González de Reufels; Herbert Obinger. 1. ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. p. 515-529 (Global Dynamics of Social Policy).

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Gottschall K, Noack K, Rothgang H. Dependencies of Long-Term Care Policy on East-West Migration: The Case of Germany. In Nullmeier F, González de Reufels D, Obinger H, editors, International Impacts on Social Policy: Short Histories in Global Perspective. 1 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. p. 515-529. (Global Dynamics of Social Policy). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-86645-7_40

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