Free to move, bound to be exploited? The political economy of gender inequality in EU care migration
本文运用弗雷泽的政治经济学分析框架，探讨欧盟2022年照护战略如何影响照护移民中的性别不平等，并引入“照护工作者的道德经济”概念解释其抵抗剥削的机制。
The provision of long-term care for the elderly is a pressing policy problem for the aging populations of European countries but also a challenge for comparative and European political economy. Using Nancy Fraser’s engaging political economy analysis of care in capitalism, we can see that the 2022 European Care Strategy (ECS) adopted in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic raises fundamental political economy questions about prevailing perceptions of productive work, the commercialisation of care, and regressive distributive effects of free movement by care workers in the EU. However, we also try to understand what stabilises this situation. We argue that social reproduction is shaped by enduring social norms and political agency, which may be at odds with imperatives of capitalist production. The concept of the ‘moral economy of care workers’ can explain how they resist exploitation while the EU’s rights-based approach in the ECS is of limited use to them.