The Globalized Market Demand for Long-Term Care Work Services

Title: "The Globalized Market Demand for Long-Term Care Work Services and the Rise of Immigrant Filipina Entrepreneurship."

Jennifer Nazareno's talk draws from her dissertation research and will discuss the rise of immigrant Filipina nurses as gendered and racialized ethnic entrepreneurs in the U.S. long term care industry. She will provide an organizational analysis that will elucidate their opportunity structure into the industry. Her findings suggest that their entry point into the market is based on caring for some of the least cared for in society, providing cheaper care services, accepting lower, fixed, government subsidized reimbursements and overall decreased profit margins that large profit corporations would not accept. The aim of the talk is to discuss 1) how did ethnic and gendered enterprises form to serve the health needs of the elderly poor and racial ethnic populations while sustaining themselves with limited, government subsidized budgets. 2) Given such meager funds, how did this translate and affect resident conditions and 3) How do these contextual factors and employee-employer relations impact co-ethnic labor conditions. Her presentation emphasizes how privatization of the U.S. long-term care industry has reproduced and masked certain social conditions and uneven inequalities that interlink the global North and South regions of the world and that have culminated to an unprecedented terrain of a globalized market demand for long-term care work services.

Jennifer is currently a visiting researcher at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Her dissertation is entitled, “The Outsourced State: The Retraction of Public Caregiving in America” and is focused at the juncture of globalization, aging, race/gender and health care.

Event Sponsor
Department of Sociology, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Joy Lacanienta, (808) 956-7693, socdept@hawaii.edu, http://www.sociology.hawaii.edu/index.html

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