Cuidadoras inmigrantes: trabajo emocional

Abstract

he changes in demographic, economic, socio-cultural and health foster the emergence of a new set of caregivers: the hired caregiver, covered generally by immigrant women. his article is a study that aims to inquire into this new reality, focusing mainly on knowing the experiences and emotions of immigrant carers in relation to people and their environment maintained. he study, a qualitative research, collected through direct testimony of caregivers, which is their lived experiences, that is, the stories of a diicult and complex context, where it cross-es a double need for afection: on one hand, the one of those sufering bereavement of immi-gration, by the distancing of their own family, by the harshness and precariousness of their migrant status and on the other hand, those who in old age, beyond physical dependence, sufer from loneliness. It demonstrates the emotional and relational nature of care and the positive contributions of these immigrant women to a situation characteristic of global societies, and with aging populations. mu-lheres imigrantes. O presente artigo pretende indagar sobre esta nova realidade, procuran-do fundamentalmente conhecer as vivências e emoções das cuidadoras imigrantes e a sua relação com as pessoas a que cuidam e os meio envolvente. O estudo de caráter qualitativo, recolhe através de testemunhos diretos das cuidadoras, o que constitui a sua experiência vivida; quer isto dizer, os relatos sobre um contexto difícil e complexo, donde se cruzam uma necessida-de dupla de afeto: por um lado, as que sofrem um " luto migratório " , pela separação dos seus Cuidadoras inmigrantes: trabajo emocional