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The Australian government has recently received the report of a Royal Commission into the nation’s management of aged care. This followed media scandals about physical and sexual abuse, neglect and inadequate controls during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though all discussion occurred within a national context, this chapter shows that the aged-care ‘industry’ is a space of transnational flows, both in the export of business and models and in the internal movements of staff who are frequently unskilled immigrant labour. The chapter notes some Australian-Indian links and looks at how ‘the old folks’ home’ as heterotopic space has been represented in Australian literature.
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Sharrad, P. (2022). Home Away from Home: The Aged-Care Facility as Transnational Space. In: Sharrad, P., Bandyopadhyay, D.N. (eds) Transnational Spaces of India and Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81325-3_12
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