Universität Wien

240048 SE VM3 / VM7 - Frailty, care and migration in global dependency (2023S)

7.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

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Please communicate any needs regarding accessibility at least 2 weeks before the first session directly to the lecturer.

  • Wednesday 08.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 22.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 19.04. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 03.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 17.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 31.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 14.06. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 28.06. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Older persons, care labour and migrant workers are at the centre of this course's focus. With the help of literature analysis and exemplary instances of care recipients’ and care givers’ rights we will try to draw connecting intersectional lines. This seminar aims to let participants develop their own theoretical and applied toolkit, with which to engage intersectional interdependencies around
a. age,
b. mobility and
c. reproductive labour.

Students can thereby develop a sensitivity to detect where respective group interests overlap, contradict or complement each other.
Older persons, care labour migrants and institutions that shape the framework of practices that govern their realities are to be reflected from a critical sociological perspective, so as to make the realities of overlooked social groups visible and scientifically operable.

Assessment and permitted materials

Critical reading of key and complementary texts –
Presentation of one of the texts provided via Moodle – presenters are to provide a handout, prepare and guide questions for the discussion following their presentation;
plenary discussions;
peer review among participants – feedback to seminar paper ideas is to be provided to at least one colleague via a dedicated Moodle forum before the last session;
Term paper (guided by own research question,15-20 pages)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Written paper needs to refer and work with a minimum of 3 texts covered during the seminar. Individual research of additional relevant resources is required!

- Participation, peer review (100 points): 20%
- Presentation + moderation of discussion (100 points): 30%
- Seminar paper (100 points): 50%

0-60 points ≙ nicht genügend
61-70,9 points ≙ genügend
71-80,9 points ≙ befriedigend
81-90,9 points ≙ gut
91-100 points ≙ sehr gut

Examination topics

see above - to be shared via Moodle

Reading list

Aulenbacher, Brigitte, Fabienne Décieux, and Birgit Riegraf. 2018. ‘The Economic Shift and beyond: Care as a Contested Terrain in Contemporary Capitalism’. Current Sociology 66(4):517–30.

Bauer, Gudrun and August Österle. 2013. ‘Migrant Care Labour: The Commodification and Redistribution of Care and Emotional Work’. Social Policy and Society 12(3):461-73.

Bochumer Zentrum für Disability Studies (BODYS): Stellungnahme zur Verfassungsbeschwerde Triage, 15. Dezember 2020. http://cto4.bodys-wissen.de/corona-protokoll.html

Brennan, Frank. 2007. ‘Palliative Care as an International Human Right’. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 33(5):494–499.

Clark, Nigel and Giovanni Bettini. 2017. ‘“Floods” of Migrants, Flows of Care: Between Climate Displacement and Global Care Chains’. Sociological Review 65:36–54.

ENNHRI – European Network of National Human Rights Institutions. (2017). Human Rights of Older Persons and Long-Term Care Project: The Application of International Human Rights Standards to Older Persons in Long-Term. Brussels.

International Labour Office. 2011. Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201 Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Geneva: ILO.

Kilkey, Majella. 2010. ‘Men and Domestic Labor: A Missing Link in the Global Care Chain’. Men & Masculinities 13(1):126–49.

Kröger, Teppo. 2009. ‘Care Research and Disability Studies: Nothing in Common?’ Critical Social Policy 29(3):398–420.

Kornfeld-Matte, R. (2016). Report of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, A/HRC/33/44. Geneva.

Locke, Catherine. 2017. ‘Do Male Migrants “Care”? How Migration Is Reshaping the Gender Ethics of Care’. Ethics and Social Welfare 11(3):277–95.

Lutz, Helma. 2018. ‘Care Migration: The Connectivity between Care Chains, Care Circulation and Transnational Social Inequality’. Current Sociology 66(4):577–89.

Mahon, Rianne. 2018. ‘Through a Fractured Gaze: The OECD, the World Bank and Transnational Care Chains’. Current Sociology 66(4):562–76.

Shutes, Isabel and Carlos Chiatti. 2012. ‘Migrant Labour and the Marketisation of Care for Older People: The Employment of Migrant Care Workers by Families and Service Providers’. Journal of European Social Policy 22(4):392–405.

Yeates, Nicola. 2012. ‘Global Care Chains: A State-of-the-Art Review and Future Directions in Care Transnationalization Research’. Global Networks 12(2):135–54.

Association in the course directory

VM3 / VM7

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