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Attila Melegh

Care Scarcity? Care Migration and Political Demography

by Attila Melegh

Humanity has reached a particular global social situation in the 2010s. Since the 1980s there has been a rather unique interplay between aging, ongoing marketization with no increase in redistribution, and the death of the peasantry. These factors and their historical dynamic have led to care scarcity and a related dramatic increase in the care migration industry. These developments put the migrant caregivers into a very difficult position...

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The Fear of Population Replacement

by Attila Melegh

East European populations are (again) in the process of understanding the insights of their son, Karl Polanyi. After writing The Great Transformation and explaining why market utopia leads to the need to regain a “protective cover” against systems of “crude fictions,” in 1945 Polanyi also argued that the introduction of a free market would lead to crazy nationalism in Eastern Europe: ...

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