Connecting care chains and care diamonds: The elderly care skills regime in Singapore

• Main Authors: ORTIGA, Yasmin Y., WEE, Kellyn, YEOH, Brenda S. A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Care chains; care workers; domestic workers; elderly care; global South; globalization; migration; private agencies; Singapore; state institutions; interviews; Asian Studies; Family, Life Course, and Society; Gerontology; Infrastructure
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3266; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4523/viewcontent/ConnectingCareChains_Singapore_2020_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Research on the globalization of care work often faces the persistent challenge of building meaningful connections between the movement of care labour at a global scale and place-based frameworks of care access and delivery. In addressing this gap in this article, we propose to take a closer look at...