1,568
Views
25
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Domestic helpers as frontline workers in China’s home-based elder care: A systematic review

&

References

  • Ayalon, L. (2014). “Do foreigners deserve rights?”—revisited: The role of familiarity and satisfaction with foreign home care services. Educational Gerontology, 40(11), 816–824. doi:10.1080/03601277.2014.897466
  • Ayalon, L., & Green, O. (2015). Live-in versus live-out home care in Israel: Satisfaction with services and caregivers’ outcomes. The Gerontologist, 55(4), 628–642. doi:10.1093/geront/gnt122
  • Bai, X., Kwok, T. C., Chan, N. Y., & Ho, F. K. (2013). Determinants of job satisfaction in foreign domestic helper caring for people with dementia in Hong Kong. Health & Social Care in the Community, 21(5), 472–479. doi:10.1111/hsc.12029
  • Browne, C. V., & Braun, K. L. (2008). Globalization, women’s migration, and the long-term-care workforce. The Gerontologist, 48(1), 16–24. doi:10.1093/geront/48.1.16
  • Butler, S. S. (2013). Older women doing home care: Exploitation or ideal job? Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 56(4), 299–317. doi:10.1080/01634372.2013.773392
  • Chan, K. L. (2009). Sexual violence against women and children in Chinese societies. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 10(1), 69–85. DOI: 10.1177/1524838008327260
  • Chau, P. H., Woo, J., Kwok, T., Chan, F., Hui, E., & Chan, K. C. (2012). Usage of community services and domestic helpers predicted institutionalization of elders having functional or cognitive impairments: A 12-month longitudinal study in Hong Kong. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 13(2), 169–175. doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2010.07.011
  • Chen, G., & Shigeyuki, H. (2014). Rural labor migration, discrimination and the new dual labor market. New York, NY: Springer Heidelberg.
  • Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. (2014). China aging development report. Retrieved from http://baike.baidu.com/view/10180645.htm
  • Chiu, S. W. K. (2005). A stranger in the house: Foreign domestic helper in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
  • Chong, A. M., Kwan, C. W., Chi, I., Lou, V. W., & Leung, A. Y. (2014). Domestic helpers as moderators of spousal caregiver distress. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 69, 966–972. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbu034
  • Dussich, J. P. (2001). Decisions not to report sexual assault: A comparative study among women living in Japan who are Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English-speaking. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 45(3), 278–30. doi:10.1177/0306624X01453002
  • Flaherty, H., Li, M. L., & Ding, L. (2007). China: The aging giant. International Health Affairs, 55(8), 1294–1298.
  • Gao, W. (2010). Jiazhengfuwuyuan zhiye suyang yanjiu-shanghaiweili [Domestic helper’ professional literacy in Shanghai] ( Unpublished master’s thesis). Huadong Normal University, Shanghai, China.
  • Gao, X., Chan, C. W., Mak, S. L., Ng, Z., Kwong, W. H., & Kot, C. C. (2014). Oral health of foreign domestic workers: Exploring the social determinants. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health/Center for Minority Public Health, 16(5), 926–933. doi:10.1007/s10903-013-9789-5
  • Garrard, J. (2013). Health sciences literature review made easy: The matrix method. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett.
  • Gu, D., Dupre, M. E., & Liu, G. (2007). Characteristics of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest-old in China. Social Science & Medicine, 64(4), 871–883. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.10.026
  • Hairong, Y. (2006). Rurality and labor process autonomy: The question of subsumption in the waged labor of domestic service. Cultural Dynamics, 18(1), 5–31. doi:10.1177/0921374006063412
  • Han, L. (2007). Zai jiena yu paichi zhijian-tianjinshi jincheng nvbaomu chengshi shiying yanjiu [Migrant domestic helpers’ adaptation to urban life in Tianjing] ( Unpublished master’s thesis). Fujian Normal University, Fujian, China.
  • He, W. (2010). Jincheng wugong baomu xingfugan yanjiu [Migrant domestic helpers’ happiness and well-being] ( Unpublished master’s thesis). Fujian Normal University, Fujian, China.
  • Ho, K. H., & Chiang, V. C. (2015). A meta‐ethnography of the acculturation and socialization experiences of migrant care workers. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 71(2), 237–254. doi:10.1111/jan.12506
  • Hou, J. W. (May, 2009). Beijing wailaibaomu de tezheng yu fazhan qushi [Migrant domestic helpers’ characteristics and development in Beijing]. Paper presented at the China’s 60 Years of Population Research meeting, Beijing, China.
  • Hu, X. (2010). Paid domestic labor as precarious work in China ( Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Department of Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
  • Huang, S., Yeoh, B. S., & Toyota, M. (2012). Caring for the elderly: The embodied labour of migrant care workers in Singapore. Global Networks, 12(2), 195–215. doi:10.1111/j.1471-0374.2012.00347.x
  • Lau, P. W., Cheng, J. G., Chow, D. L., Ungvari, G. S., & Leung, C. M. (2009). Acute psychiatric disorders in foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong: A pilot study. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 55(6), 569–576. doi:10.1177/0020764008098294
  • Lei, Y. (2005). Nongminggong jiazhengrenyuan peixun yu chengshiwenhua shiying—beijing fuping xuexiao wei gean [Migrant domestic helper training and cultural adaptability—Beijing Fuping Training School] ( Unpublished master’s thesis). Minzu University of China, Beijing, China.
  • Li, C. X. (2012). Nongcun jincheng wugong nvxing de shehui zhichi yanjiu [Female migrant domestic helper social support and social networking in Beijing]. Chinese Journal of Social Science, 2, 28–33.
  • Li, P. (2005). Zhujiaxing jiazhengfuwuyuan shehui liudong yanjiu-zhengzhoushi nongcun wailai nvxing wei li [Live-in domestic helper societal flows in Zhengzhou City] ( Unpublished master’s thesis). Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
  • Li, Y. M. (2008). Woguo jiazhengfuwuye de xianzhuang fenxi yu guifanhua jianshe [Domestic service in China]. Chinese Journal of Social Scientist, 135(7), 107–110.
  • Liu, L.-J., Fu, Y.-F., Qu, L., & Wang, Y. (2014). Home health care needs and willingness to pay for home health care among the empty-nest elderly in Shanghai, China. International Journal of Gerontology, 8(1), 31–36. doi:10.1016/j.ijge.2013.01.013
  • Parreñas, R. S. (2014). Migrant domestic workers as “one of the family.” Migration and Care Labour: Theory, Policy and Politics, 49, 49–64.
  • Peng, R., & Wu, B. (2015). Changes of health status and institutionalization among older adults in China. Journal of Aging and Health, 27(7), 1223–1246.
  • Song, Y., Anderson, R. A., Corazzini, K. N., & Wu, B. (2014). Staff characteristics and care in Chinese nursing homes: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 1(4), 423–436. doi:10.1016/j.ijnss.2014.10.003
  • Sundström, G., Johansson, L., & Hassing, L. B. (2002). The shifting balance of long-term care in Sweden. The Gerontologist, 42(3), 350–355. doi:10.1093/geront/42.3.350
  • Tamiya, N., Noguchi, H., Nishi, A., Reich, M. R., Ikegami, N., Hashimoto, H., & Campbell, J. C. (2011). Population ageing and wellbeing: Lessons from Japan’s long-term care insurance policy. The Lancet, 378(9797), 1183–1192. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61176-8
  • Wang, H. F. (2006). Feizhenggui jiuye-jiazhengfuwuyuan quanyi wenti yanjiu [Non-regular employment of domestic helper-rights and interests]. Journal of Chongqing University (Social Science Edition), 12(2), 72–78.
  • Wu, B., & Caro, F. G. (2009). Workforce issues in residential care facilities in rural China. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 23(3), 227–242.
  • Wu, B., Carter, M., Goins, R. T., & Cheng, C. (2005). Emerging services for community-based long-term care in urban China: A systematic analysis of Shanghai’s community-based agencies. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 17(4), 37–60. doi:10.1300/J031v17n04_03
  • Yao, J. (2010). Changshashi nongmingong jiazhengfuwuyuan chengshi guishugan yanjiu [Migrant domestic helper sense of belonging in the host city of Changsha] ( Unpublished master’s thesis). Minzu University of China, Beijing, China.
  • Zhan, H. J., Feng, X., & Luo, B. (2008). Placing elderly parents in institutions in urban China: A reinterpretation of filial piety. Research on Aging, 30(5), 543–571. doi:10.1177/0164027508319471
  • Zhang, H. (2009). The new realities of aging in contemporary China. In J. Sokolovsky (Eds.), The cultural context of aging: Worldview perspectives (pp. 196–215). Westport, CT: Praeger.
  • Zhang, L., & Xu, A. Q. (2011). Jiazhengcongyerenyuan de quanyi baozhang ji shehui zhichi [The right protection and social support for domestic helpers—an example from household service in Shanghai]. Social Science, 2, 83–90.
  • Zhou, J. X., & Zhou, D. M. (2007). Baomu de qunti tezheng yanjiu-zhongguo dongnan yanhai [China’s domestic helper in Southeastern China]. Chinese Journal Anthropological Research, 3, 10–17.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.