A Study on the Social Acceptance and Sustainability of Institutionalizing Foreign Care Workers

Key Points

• This research aims to analyze the social acceptance and sustainability of institutionalizing foreign care workers in the context of increasing demand for long-term care and domestic labor shortages.
• Applied policy discourse analysis and comparative case study methods.
• Categorized data based on four analytical frameworks: problem definition, cause identification, solutions, and value orientation.
• Developed a discourse structure from coded data.
• Identified key factors influencing the success of foreign care worker programs: balancing staffing levels and service quality, social acceptance and cultural integration, labor rights protection, institutional coherence, and financial and labor market stability.
• Highlighted that care policies are shaped through negotiations of conflicting values such as cost-efficiency, public interest, and rights protection.
• Emphasized the need for governance cooperation across departments and coherent policy tools in designing effective systems.

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