Caring Beyond Borders

Through in-depth case studies, this collection assesses the efficacy of home care policies for delivering decent work and workers’ rights.

The contributors reach across the Atlantic, heeding the call for perspectives beyond the North to study border-transcending dynamics and interdependencies. The lens of the pandemic reveals why care systems proved so inadequate for mitigating the contagion and why some countries fared better than others. Broadening the focus through international comparisons offers lessons in the medium and long-term and can provide a better understanding of systemic vulnerabilities and capacities for ensuring resilience and positive outcomes before, during, and after disasters.

Contributors are: Louisa Acciari, Ana Andrada, Eileen Boris, Javier Pineda D., Sabah Boufkhed, Suelen E. Castiblanco-Moreno, Anju Mary Paul, Anne Eydoux, Chiara Giordano, Heidi Gottfried, Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Virginie Guiraudon, Helena Hirata, Clémence Ledoux, Sofia Mortara, Lorena Poblete, Claire Sonnet, Camila Vega-Salazar, and Regina Stela Corrêa Vieira.

ISBN: 9798903931828

Publication date: April 30, 2027

Acknowledgments
List of Tables and Graphs
Notes on Contributors

Part 1 Introduction

1 Caring beyond Borders: Home Care Policies and Workers’ Rights in Europe and the Americas
Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried and Nadya Araujo Guimarães

Part 2 Measuring Policies and Social Protections of Home Care Workers

2 Metrics for Measuring Policy Protections for Domestic Workers: Methodological Challenges from the Trenches
Anju Mary Paul

3 Assessing Paid Care Policies and Rights in Brazil: Insights from the Global Care Policy Index
Ana Carolina Andrada, Regina Stela Corrêa Vieira and Sofia Mortara

4 Lost in Fragmentation? French Public Policies and Regulations of Domestic Work at a Crossroads in the Post-Covid Context
Anne Eydoux

5 The Global Care Policy Index: an Approach to the Colombian Case (2020–2024)
Javier A. Pineda D., Camila Vega-Salazar and Suelen E. Castiblanco-Moreno

Part 3 Home Care Policies and Workers’ Rights: before, during and beyond Covid

6 Care beyond Crisis? Pre-pandemic and Pandemic Protections of Paid Homecare Workers in the US and Canada
Heidi Gottfried and Eileen Boris

7 Home Care Workers and Industrial Relations during and after the COVID Pandemic in England and France
Clémence Ledoux, Virginie Guiraudon and Claire Sonnet

8 The Management of the Home Care Sector in Belgium during the Pandemic: Fragmented Measures or Coordinated Effort?
Chiara Giordano

9 The Ordinary and the Extraordinary in the Everyday Realities of Paid Home Care: Experiences from Brazil and France
Nadya Araujo Guimarães and Helena Hirata

10 What the Covid-19 Crisis Revealed: the Importance of Unemployment Insurance for Domestic Workers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay
Lorena Poblete

11 Domestic Workers’ Labour Conditions and Rights during and Post-pandemic in Brazil, Colombia and the UK
Louisa Acciari and Sabah Boufkhed

Part 4 Conclusions

12 Care Policy Trajectories: Convergences and Divergences Navigating COVID and Its Aftermath
Heidi Gottfried, Eileen Boris and Nadya Araujo Guimarães

Index