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  • Life Trajectories of Migrant Care Workers in the Long-Term Care Sectors in Norway and the UK

  • Karen Christensen
  • Journal:
    Social Policy and Society / Volume 16 / Issue 4 / October 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 June 2017, pp. 635-644
    Print publication:
    October 2017
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  • An ageing population in Europe is currently putting pressure on long-term care services, creating demand for foreign workers. Using a life-course perspective, this article aims to contribute to the understanding of how life trajectories shape decisions about migration and employment in social care. Based on fifty-one life story interviews with migrant care workers in Norway and UK, two typologies are found: a Norwegian migrant life trajectory of downwards social mobility combined with settlement and a British trajectory combining stronger downwards social mobility with further migration. The article contributes to the discussion of contextualised migratory lives involving care work.