Title：Care and International Migration: Comparing Migrant Care Worker Policies in Taiwan and South Korea
Time：12:30-14:00, Thu. Nov. 26, 2020
Venue：Room 108, College of Social Sciences, NTU
Speaker：Yi-Chun Chien ( Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, NCCU)
Moderator： Yen-Fen Tseng (Professor, Department of Sociology, NTU)
Abstract：
Industrialized countries around the world are facing rapid demographic changes, including declining fertility rates, greater longevity, and an aging population, and these are creating unprecedented challenges in care provision. Many East Asian countries have used migrant care workers to solve the challenges of labour shortages in the social welfare sector. This talk explores why East Asian countries have adopted different policy approaches to recruiting migrant care workers. By comparing the migrant care worker policies, I will map out the political mechanisms that determine the levels of rights, labour mobility, and access to membership rights for migrant care workers in Taiwan and South Korea. I argue that migrant care worker policies manifest how care work, citizenship, and gender equality are defined and contested by the receiving society.
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