Migrant care workers in elderly care: what a study of media representations suggests about Sweden as a caring democracy
This article sheds light on the ways in which migrant care workers in the elderly care sector were represented in Swedish daily newspaper articles published between 1995 and 2017 (n = 370); it uses the notions of the “ethics of care” and “caring democracy” as a prism through which the findings can b...
Main Authors: | Sandra Torres, Jonas Lindblom |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2020-06-01
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Series: | International Journal of Ageing and Later Life |
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Online Access: | https://ijal.se/article/view/3103 |
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