Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)

Contents
Notes on Contributors
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1 Care Loops, Mobilities and the Neoliberalization of Care in Transforming Welfare States
	Rethinking Care from a Mobility Perspective
	Care Loops in Transforming Welfare States
	Overview of the Volume
	Transforming Welfare States  and New Mobilities
	References
2 Trapped in the Institution: Governing the Covid-19 Epidemic in Slovenian Eldercare Homes from the Perspective of Care Micro-Mobilities
	Introduction
	Conclusion
	References
3 Neoliberalization of Familialism by Default: The Case of Local Organization of Elder Care in Poland
	Introduction
	Expansion of Private Maternalism
	Ethnography of Care
	Local Care Regimes in the Two Towns
		Case Study A: Margarete in Kluczbork
		Case Study B: Eugenia in Końskie
		Local Care Regimes Compared
		Third Sector Organizations Step in to Fill in Local Care Loopholes
	Conclusions
	References
4 Hungarian Migrant Care Workers Between Local and Cross-Border Care Loops
	Introduction
	Hungarian Eldercare Policy and Institutions
		Formal Care Services
		Informal Care Services
	Gender Norms in Hungary
	Method and Context
		Life-Course Perspective in the Analysis
	Case Studies
		The Weight of Care and Rigid Gender Expectations
		Outsourced Care in an Egalitarian Setting
	Discussion
	Conclusions
	References
5 ‘Quality Time’ in Nanny Families: Local Care Loops and New Inequalities in Sweden
	Introduction
	Paid Domestic Care and the Doing of Family in Sweden
	Theorizing Families and Time
	Study and Methods
	Parents’ Views on Quality Time: Delegating to Enable ‘Good Parenting’
	Making Quality Time Possible: Narratives of Nannies and Au Pairs
	Children’s Experiences of ‘Quality Time’
	Conclusion
	References
6 Care Loops Under One Roof: Multigenerational Living, Grandmothers, and Intergenerational Puzzles of Caring Responsibilities in the Czech Republic
	Introduction
	Care Loops in the Czech Republic: An Overview
	Researching Care Loops in Multigenerational Living
	‘Grandma Is Around the Corner’: Sharing a Roof, Sharing Care Responsibilities
		Caring by Being There
		Grandmothers Infilling the Gap in an Interrupted Care Loop
		Caring to Enable Mothers to Work or Study
	Conclusion
	References
7 Local Care Loops Among Foster Families in Rural Russia
	Introduction
	Theoretical Framework
	Rural Family and Gendered Norms in Post-Soviet Russia
	Data Collection and Methods
	Deinstitutionalization and Optimization of the Welfare State in Russia: Switching from Institutional Care to a Family One
	Foster Care Loops in Rural Context
	Meaning of Religion in Care Loops
	Conclusion
	References
8 Lunchrooms in the Care Loops: Filipino Au Pair Migrants Between Hierarchy and Equality in Norway
	Introduction
	Filipino Migration to Norway
	The Au Pair Scheme in the Norwegian Migration Regime
	Filipino Au Pairs in the Public Discourse
	The Study: The Filipino House
	Theoretical Frame: Sociology of Emotions
	Care Loops and Lunchrooms
	Chains and Micro-Mobilities
	Coming Together as Filipinos: Back-Stage Situations and Social Membership
	Conviviality and Friendship
	‘Lunchrooms’ in the Care Loops
	Conclusion
	References
9 Social Reproductive Struggles of Filipino Migrants in Finland
	Introduction
	Research Context
	Data and Methods
		Local and Transnational Stratifications in Care Loops
		Struggles for the Social Reproduction of Oneself as a Parent and as a Worker
	Conclusions
	References
10 Towards a Mobility Perspective on Care
	References
Index