Migrant Care Labour, Covid-19, and the Long-Term Care Crisis: Achieving Solidarity for Care Providers and Recipients

Abstract Globally there is a care crisis in terms of the quantity needed for an aging population and quality both provided work conditions those providing this care. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed heighted In chapter we review issue with particular focus on long-term (LTC) facilities type skill mix labour, including degree to which immigrant workers are over-represented sector. We offer some conceptual reflections elder as matter social justice ethics needing These concerns take specific global dimension when understand transnationalisation care, or provisioning function what termed chains. contextualise how migrant labour positioned within sector through international comparisons funding models LTC, also allows us structural globally-sourced workforce positioned. then highlight two significant contributing factors current LTC that were intensified during using Ontario, Canada, example: role private unsustainable extraction profits from service, gendered racialised devaluing so essential