The ninth BBinar focused on discussing how high emigration rates from the Western Balkans, particularly among young and skilled workers, combined with the other unfavourable demographic trends, have turned the region with once characterised with abundance of available workforce into a region facing significant labour shortages. 

In this session, Sandra Tricas-Sauras (Université Libre Brussels) and Palle Storm (Stockholm University) will discuss transcultural nursing for older migrants.

In this session, Marco Canevelli (Sapienza University, Italian National Institute of Health and Karolinska Institutet) and Saloua Berdai Chaouni (Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Karel de Grote University College) will discuss care for older migrants with dementia..

In this session, Emina Hadziabdic (Linnaeus University) and Meri Kulmala (University of Eastern Finland and University of Helsinki) will discuss language barriers migrants face in accessing services.

In our series of international seminars, in this face-to-face event the main results of the project „The effect of COVID-19 on poverty and material deprivation of children in Austria“, funded by the Jubiläumsfonds of the Austrian National Bank (project number 18785), will be presented and discussed.