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Central and Eastern European
countries in the migrant care chain
Agnieszka Sowa-KoftaInstitute of Labour and Social Studies
Center for Social and Economic Research
Expert Group Meeting on “Care and Older Persons: Links to Decent Work, Migration and Gender”
December 5th-7th 2017
Ageing & care needs in CEEC
• Improvement in life expectancy, especially in CZ and PL between 1990-2017; lower improvementsin BG, RO, HU & othercountries
• Poor health status and chronic conditions: CVD, cancers, diabetes, muscosceletal illnesses
• High levels of functionalimpairments and disabilityin older population
• With low TFR and increasein LE, CEEC are entering theageing phase
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Disability in older adult population
Old age dependency ratioToday still „young” populations will be among the „oldest”
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Migration from the CEEC
• CEEC - poorer countries under many economicand political pressures have been „sending” countries for many decades (XIX century, post IIWW, communist period)
• Due to historical and ethnic reasons strongermigration in some regions (i.e. South-WestPoland, East Romania – German minority)
• Entering EU in 2004 and freedom of labourmovement stimulated the last wave of economicmigration
Reasons for care migration
• Demand factors:
– Demographic change in Western European countries
– Shortages in care employment
– Changing family roles
– Stimulation by social transfers
• Supply factors:
– High poverty during the transformation period
– High unemployment (young people, women 50+)
– Low salaries and poor working conditions in nursing & care professions
Migration and care regimes
• Traditional perception of care duties and availability of unconditional care-related cash transfers (e.g. Germany, Italy, Austria) stimulates employment of low-salaried informal carers
(Simonazzi 2009, Fedyuk et al. 2014) � semi-regulated but politically and socially accepted segment of care
• Developed formal care and marked care-relatedcash transfers stimulates migrants’ employmentin formal care settings (e.g. France, UK, Sweden)
Employment of first-generation
migrants in the EU• health and social services are the main field of economic activity for
almost 10% of first generation migrant workers
• 7.4% of first generation migrants work in households and this share has
strongly increased between 2008 and 2014
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Care migration from CEEC
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• Employment in care remains an area un- or underreported in public statistics either of destination or in source countries (temporary work, cross-borderon circulatory basis, often non-registered)
• But:
– 316 thousand care workers in Italy (2002),
– 187.5 thousand care workers in Spain (2005),
– 60.6 thousand care workers in Austria (2017): 56% Slovaks, 30% Romanians
– Estimations show from 100 thousand CEEC care workers to over 200 thousand Polish care workers in Germany
CEEC - new destination countries
• In Poland, Czech Republic increasing migration of informal care workers from Ukraine (especially afterthe war in Eastern Ukraine) – up to 600 thousandmigrants seasonally, every 5th working in households’ & care
• Romania a host country for care migrants fromMoldova – 94 thousand migrants between 1991 and 2014
• Hungary a host country for care migrants of Hungarianethnicity living in other CEEC
• Slovenia a host country for care migrants from formerYugoslavia territory (Voivodina)
Registered care migrants in Poland
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Tensions in sending countries• Risk of workforce drain in the source countries,
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e.g. Poland: 19.9 thousand professionalcertificates for nurseses issued between
2004 and 2016
• Inablity to assure adequate care in CEEC in times of rising care needs (high dependency & ageing) withunderdeveloped formal LTC services, migration and family changes
• Whilst in Poland, Romania or the Czech Republic migration might be mitigated by inflow of workers form other countries, this is not the case in poorer CEEC: Ukraine, Moldova
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Gender, family and the risk of
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• Care is a female work, either as migrants ordemestically
– Redefinition of female role within family, women as breadwinners,
• Families better-off, but often socially deprived, a risk of family deconstruction
• High cost of emotional distress, social isolation, deprivation of own needs related to care work
• Financial independence of women sometimes allowsthem to build self-esteem, rebuilt their lives and reviselife goals (Wiatr 2017)
Social protection of migrant care
workers
Care migrants work in different work arrangements:
(1) Formal care settings � covered with socialprotection (UK, Sweden)
(2) Semi-formal arrangements (self-employment, cross-border temporary contracts) � labourbelow statutory minimum wage in destinationcountry, poor social protection, lack of labourstability (Austria, Germany)
(3) Informal care � lack of any social protection(Spain, Italy, Poland, Czech Rep.), typicallyworkers from non-EU countries working in the EU
Main policy issues
• Drawing attention to the problem of migrant care work(e.g. CEQUA LTC Network)
• Changing role of the CEEC countries needs discussionon the impact of migrant care work on supply of caredomestically (formal and informal), family relations & female roles
• A need to formally recognize care migrant work in most of the European countries (e.g. Austria), including CEEC
• A need for equal treatment of migrants care workerscompared to domestic worker & social protection of care workers
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