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07. June 2024

Refugees in home care in eastern Germany: New perspectives and mandates

Dr. phil. Monique Ritter at lecture series of the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

Under the title "Refugees in Domiciliary Care in East Germany: New Perspectives and Mandates", Dr. Monique Ritter discussed on 06.06.2024, together with Maike Isaac from the Department of Sociology at McGill University in Canada and the Mercator Foundation-funded project "Care beyond borders: Exploring impacts of migration, displacement and inclusion for the care and nursing sector", based at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, discussed the current challenges in the context of the shortage of nursing staff, migration and gender-specific experiences of racism. The discussion focused on racialized masculinities in geriatric care and the resulting policy interventions.

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