Migrant Live-In Care Workers in the Global Care Chain: Results From an Online Survey.

Autor/inn/en	Wojczewski, Silvia; Durisová, Simona; Pleschberger, Sabine; Ernst, Anna; Bagheri, Rojin; Hoffmann, Kathryn; Adler, Viktoria
Titel	Migrant Live-In Care Workers in the Global Care Chain: Results From an Online Survey. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Migrierende Pflegekräfte mit Wohnrecht in der globalen Pflegekette: Ergebnisse einer Online-Umfrage.
Quelle	In: Social Inclusion, (2026) 14, Art. 11728, 20 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2183-2803
DOI	10.17645/si.11728
Schlagwörter	Soziale Situation; Arbeitsbelastung; Gewalt; Konfliktmanagement; Soziale Beziehung; Pausenordnung; Gesundheitszustand; Rassismus; Sexuelle Belästigung; Arbeitsbedingungen; Lohnhöhe; Geringfügige Beschäftigung; Tätigkeitsmerkmal; Pflegerischer Beruf; Altenpfleger; Weiterbildungsbedarf; Regulation; Arbeitnehmer; Ausländer; Ausländerin; Einwanderer; Österreich
Abstract	"High-income countries are using migrant care workers to address deficiencies in domestic care, thereby creating new care gaps in their countries of origin. Apart from this, care workers often face challenging working conditions in many countries. This article examines the job profile, needs, and training preferences of migrant live-in care workers in Austria to inform improvements to their working and living conditions. As part of a transdisciplinary project, an online survey was co-designed with live-in care workers and CSOs working with care workers. The survey covered four languages (Slovak, Romanian, Bulgarian, and German). Themes included job profile, training requirements, problems encountered, well-being, health, work breaks, and social contact in Austria. Descriptive analysis was applied using key figures, including mean values and frequency distributions. The results were interpreted by the project team. Two hundred and twenty-five live-in care workers completed the survey. The study found that live-in carers perform numerous additional tasks, some of which make them feel uncomfortable. Some live-in carers reported experiencing sexual harassment and physical violence, as well as a deterioration in their physical and mental health, since starting work as a live-in carer. Participants expressed substantial interest in training opportunities, particularly those dealing with difficult situations in the household. There is great potential to improve conditions for live-in care workers in Austria by providing services in their native languages. This would benefit both live-in care workers and care recipients and their families. The expectations regarding what live-in carers are and are not allowed to do should be communicated much more clearly to clients and their families. Furthermore, dependency on brokering agencies could be reduced by introducing a public health official responsible for administering live-in arrangements as part of official home care in Austria." The study refers to the period 2023-2024 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2026/4