The gendered nature of geographically mobile care work: how mobile healthcare workers navigate work, mobility and family life

Ivy Bourgeault, Lois Jackson, Audrey Kruisselbrink, Sheri Price, Pauline Gardiner Barber, Michael Leiter and Shiva Nourpanah

Chapter 21 in Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Professions, 2025, pp 322-333 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Healthcare workers have become increasingly mobile geographically within and between communities, regions and countries. This chapter focuses on the case of mobile professional and paraprofessional healthcare workers in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia who were mobile on a daily basis within and between the other neighbouring provinces. Three intersecting bodies of literature inform this study: work and mobility, work and family and mobility, work and family. We found many mobile healthcare workers work long, unpredictable and irregular hours, much of which are away from their homes and families. This necessitates relying on others at home to attend to the household, which can include care work and the undertaking of other domestic tasks. There is variability among mobile healthcare workers in how household responsibilities are managed, and the conditions under which there is fatigue and stress in managing them in the context of work and mobility.

Keywords: Geographic mobility; Care work; Gender; Family life; Professional; Paraprofessional (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035323074
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