The emergence of care facilities in Thailand for older German-speaking people: structural backgrounds and facility operators as transnational actors

Désirée Bender (), Tina Hollstein and Cornelia Schweppe
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Désirée Bender: Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Tina Hollstein: Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Cornelia Schweppe: Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

European Journal of Ageing, 2017, vol. 14, issue 4, No 4, 365-374

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of old age care facilities for German-speaking people in Thailand. It analyses the conditions and processes behind the development and specific designs of such facilities. It first looks at the intertwinement, at the socio-structural level, of different transborder developments in which the facilities’ emergence is embedded. Second, it analyses the processes that accompany the emergence, development and organisation of these facilities at the local level. In this regard, it points out the central role of the facility operators as transnational actors who mediate between different frames of reference and groups of actors involved in these facilities. It concludes that the processes of mediation and intertwining are an important and distinctive feature of the emergence of these facilities, necessitated by the fact that, although the facilities are located in Thailand, their ‘markets’ are in the German-speaking countries of their target groups.

Keywords: International retirement migration; Care migration; Old age care; Old age facilities; Thailand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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