ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on fewer studies of countries applying managed care migration strategies in a setting with formal care sector employment, as in Denmark. Many ageing countries are facing the challenge of how to attract and retain workers to the Long-Term Care (LTC) sector, as work here is often regarded as physically and mentally challenging. There is the assumption that employing more care workers with migrant backgrounds will stimulate greater diversity in the production of care, going beyond culture-sensitive and culture-specific care, thus adding a universal dimension to care production. An important assumption behind the recruitment strategy is that the increased recruitment of migrant care workers to the LTC sector will improve the care quality. Migrant care workers are further divided into Western background and non-Western background. The chapter also investigates the assumptions behind the discursive construction of professional identity and work culture of care workers with migrant backgrounds in a sector, which is relatively new to multicultural dynamics.
