Universität Wien

240080 SE VM3 / VM6 - Chains of Dependency? (2018W)

The interdependent rights and entitlements of older people and migrant workers

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

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

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  • Wednesday 10.10. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 17.10. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 24.10. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 31.10. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 07.11. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 14.11. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 21.11. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 28.11. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 05.12. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 12.12. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 09.01. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 16.01. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 23.01. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1
  • Wednesday 30.01. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum SG2 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1

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 toolkit, with which to engage social inequalities around
a. age
b. health
c. migration
d. sex as well as gender.
Students can thereby develop a sensitivity to detect where respective group interests overlap, contradict or complement each other.

Assessment and permitted materials

Critical reading of key and complementary texts –
every participant needs to choose 1-3 key citations from the corresponding text for each session;
Presentation of one of the texts provided via Moodle – presenters are to provide a handout and prepare questions for the discussion following their presentation;
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 (scientific seminar paper following a research question,15-20 pages)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

a) Attendance (maximum absence of 3)
b) Presentation, handout and moderation: max. 3 points
c) Participation, contribution to discussions, peer review: max. 3 points
d) Submit a written assignment/schriftl. Abschlussarbeit: max. 5 points
[Deadline for submission: 28.02.2019]
(15-20 pages, font size 12, line spacing 1.5, excluding bibliography)

Examination topics

Older persons, care labour and migrant workers are at the centre of this course. 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 toolkit, with which to engage social inequalities around
a. age
b. health
c. migration
d. sex as well as gender.
Students can thereby develop a sensitivity to detect where respective group interests overlap, contradict or complement each other.

Reading list

AGE Platform Europe. (2016). Dignity and wellbeing of older persons in need of care. Our shared responsibility. Brussels: AGE Platform. (Retrieved from http://publications.age-platform.eu/opcare-toolkit/)

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.

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.

Dunaway, Wilma A. 2013. Gendered Commodity Chains : Seeing Women’s Work and
Households in Global Production. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

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.

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.

Phelan, Amanda. 2008. ‘Elder Abuse, Ageism, Human Rights and Citizenship: Implications for Nursing Discourse’. Nursing Inquiry 15(4):320–329.

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.

Williams, Fiona. 2018. ‘Care: Intersections of Scales, Inequalities and Crises’. Current Sociology 66(4):547–61.

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 / VM6

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