Social Inclusion: Transnational Organization of Labour, Mobility, and Senior Care in Central and Eastern Europe

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Transnational Organization of Labour, Mobility, and Senior Care in Central and Eastern Europe (2026, Volume 14)

Edited by Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Dóra Gábriel, Olena Fedyuk and Kristine Krause

Complete issue: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.i533

Table of Contents:

Transnational Organization of Labour, Mobility, and Senior Care in Central and Eastern Europe
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.13078
By Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Dóra Gábriel, Olena Fedyuk and Kristine Krause

Migrant Live‐In Care Workers in the Global Care Chain: Results From an Online Survey
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.11728
By Silvia Wojczewski, Simona Ďurišová, Sabine Pleschberger, Anna Ernst, Rojin Bagheri, Kathryn Hoffmann and Viktoria Adler

Selling Care Skills? The Multiple Meanings of Training for Polish Live‐In Care Workers in Germany
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.11909
By Roxana Fiebig-Spindler

The Invisible Hand of Care: A Typology of Brokerage Actors in Migrant Care Labour
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.11953
By Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Ivanna Kyliushyk and Roxana Fiebig-Spindler

Care Extractivism Beyond Households: Migration and Care for Older People in the Post‐Yugoslav Semi‐Periphery
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.11975
By Majda Hrženjak

Caring Communities in Urban Hungary: A Civil Society Perspective
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12023
By Dóra Gábriel, Bettina Török and Noémi Katona

Care Under Constraint: Unmet Care Needs Among Older Adults in Romania
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12028
By Mihaela Hărăguș and Ionuț Földes

Skill Construction and Challenges of Professionalization in the Hungarian Home Care Market
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12029
By Noemi Katona and Dóra Gábriel

The Right to Care and Support: From Care Theory to Human Rights Law
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12056
By Maroš Matiaško

Senior Care in Wartime Ukraine: A Fragmented Continuum of Arrangements Inside an “Unpromising Sector”
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12060
By Oksana Dutchak, Olena Fedyuk and Anna Oksiutovych

Bounded Transport, Mobility Justice, and Claims for Recognition Among Live‐in Care Workers
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12191
By Petra Ezzedine

In Times of the Market and Community Shift: On Live‐In Care and Caring Communities
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12295
By Brigitte Aulenbacher, Klaus Wegleitner, Jonas Hagedorn and Bernhard Emunds

Care Outsourcing From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12319
By Kristine Krause, Veronika Prieler, Hanna Horváth, Matouš Jelínek, Mariusz Sapieha, Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková, Petra Ezzeddine and Luise Schurian‐Dąbrowska

Imagining Care: Transnational Inequality and Older Age Prospects for Ukrainian Caregivers in Italy
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12324
By Oksana Dutchak, Olena Fedyuk and Anna Oksiutovych

The Winding Road to Professionalisation: Care Work in Romanian Nursing Homes
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12326
By Neda Deneva, Ionuț Földes, Denisa Ursu and Mihaela Hărăguş

The Limits of State Control in Regulating Live‐In Care Work in The Netherlands
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12375
By Siënna Hernandez, Kristína Bartošová and Franca van Hooren

Home Care for Sale: Marketisation and Social Change
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12737
By Attila Melegh

Kind regards,

Mariana Pires
Cogitatio Press, Portugal
si AT cogitatiopress.com
Social Inclusion
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion

My source: COMPLEXITY-PRIMARY-CARE list

Public Service(s) Ethos ii (notes)

Behind the post from 19 January 2018 are the 4Ps which can be related to Hodges' model.

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

ethos: PURPOSE - Were possible the patient should have a purpose in relation to their condition, care, and recovery as far as possible. (How do we define proactive, preventive care...?) The nurse and colleagues will similarly be purposed to deliver person-centred care. The organisation can make a difference here - to individual practitioners, translating the organisational ethos through leadership to ensure individual's can be creative, safe, effective, innovate and find their role and purpose rewarding and (constantly) refreshing. Ethos here should align with personal ethics and values. Fire may be a mechanistic phenomena, but burnout here is best avoided.

SERVICES: process - In the past and today nursing has been and is defined and described in task-oriented terms. Hodges' model acknowledges this by differentiating between the activities that nurses carry out some are mechanistic and others are humanistic. Through a combination of  interventions nurses help patients regain their independence as far as possible.  Outsourcing and project management are also tied to process-laden perspectives, models and schema.

PUBLIC practice - Students are socialised into practice (yes, I had a bath).  Our practice is contextual, that is, it is situated. Interaction and the time nurses spend with patients and often carers places an emphasis on the exercise and maintained competence of interpersonal skills. Empathy, rapport, dignity and respect, universal positive regard ... they are exercised and practised here. If this is the domain were therapuetic relationships are forged, this is also the domain where contact-time counts. Count the beans as we may, the qualitiative relationships in the time spent between nurse-patient; lecturer-student; mentor-student; leader-team contact are definitive for the public and practitioner. Enjoy this, as the robot help is enabled with an ethos of its own?

ethos POLICY - The initial post was prompted by POLITICS.  Many nurses try to be apolitical, necessarily so at work. In a way, as you can see the HUMANISTIC-MECHANISTIC axis provides a dodge. The humanistic placement of practice in Hodges' model can account for the public service ethos of "Don't Panic Carry On". Although many try to circumvent the politics of healthcare, there is no escape from the effects of policy on the service. The UK and USA remain ideologically divergent in healthcare (and geologically) but the debate is now heard everywhere and when. It is infraglobal. It is heard everywhere and when. In the political domain there are obvious sensitivities associated with our use of maps and our place upon them. Addressing the ethos of healthcare at an individual and population level now calls for maps of a unique kind.

Public Service(s) Ethos

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

ethos	SERVICES
PUBLIC	ethos

Corbyn, J. "... public services ethos ..." heard this week on the news, 17 January, 2017.