The literature on care relations and eldercare has directed attention towards recognising the interdependence between ‘carer’ (familial caregiver or home support worker) and the ‘cared for’ (the older person). Such an approach gives attention to the contingencies and entanglements that shape the relationships among differently positioned members of care dyads. Drawing on in‐depth and ‘go‐along’ interviews, we examine how relations between migrant caregivers and their non‐migrant elderly charges in Singapore are spatially negotiated – formulated, sustained and reworked – on an everyday basis through Alfred Schütz's framework of intersubjective ‘tuning’. Owing to the unequal ways that migrant caregivers are positioned within Singapore society, moments of positive family‐like regard towards them are almost always preceded/superseded by forms of negativity and vice versa. The employer–employee care dyad is therefore best understood as a relational process that requires constant ‘tuning’, as the elderly employer needs care which no one else will provide, while the employee needs the job in order for the migration gamble to succeed. The paper concludes by drawing together the spatial and temporal insights that the conceptual approach of ‘tuning’ brings to analyses of care relations.

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调整新加坡移民照料者与老年人之间的照料关系

关于护理关系和老年护理的文献已经将注意力集中在认识“照料者”（家庭照料者或家庭支持工作者）与“被照料者”（老年人）之间的相互依赖性。这种方法引起了对偶然性和纠缠的注意，这些偶然性和纠缠塑造了护理二元体的不同位置成员之间的关系。借助深入和“持续”的访谈，我们研究了每天如何通过AlfredSchütz的主体间“互动式”框架在空间上协商，制定，维持和​​返工移民照料者与他们在新加坡的非移民老年人费用之间的关系。调整”。由于移民照料者在新加坡社会中的定位方式不平等，对待家庭的积极时刻几乎总是在消极形式之前/之前，反之亦然。因此，最好将雇主与雇员之间的关系理解为一个需要不断进行“调整”的关系过程，因为年长的雇主需要别人无法提供的照顾，而雇员则需要工作才能使移民赌博成功。本文通过汇总“调整”的概念方法为护理关系分析带来的时空见解而得出结论。