Aging populations in Western Europe are increasingly culturally diverse, which raises the question how current care landscapes can meet differentiated care needs. Our study focuses on one possible response: culturally-specific day-care centres for older migrants. By drawing upon practice theory, the paper explores the potential of such centres to shape and be shaped by practices in the wider care landscape. Extensive participant observation and interviews with older clients, managers and professionals, allowed us to zoom in on the 'doing of care' in culturally-specific day-care centres in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. To zoom out on the wider care landscape, we conducted interviews with municipal policy advisors and a day-care coordinator, and engaged in further participant organisation in citywide events on older migrants and cultural diversity. We find that culturally-specific day-care centres offer staff the opportunity to transform the practice of care. The day-care centres become spaces of interpretation and translation, through which staff connects their clients to other actors in the landscape, such as the municipality and other care providers. Although interpretations and negotiations within culturally-specific care spaces create some creative tension, these spaces potentially increase the responsiveness to cultural diversity of care practices in the care landscape of Nijmegen. Centros de cuidado para migrantes ancianos: espacios para traducir prácticas en el paisaje del cuidado RÉSUMÉ El envejecimiento de las poblaciones en Europa occidental es cada vez más culturalmente diverso, lo que plantea la interrogante sobre cómo los paisajes actuales del cuidado pueden satisfacer necesidades de atención diferenciada. Nuestro estudio se enfoca en una posible respuesta: centros de cuidado culturalmente específicos para migrantes ancianos. Al recurrir a la teoría de la práctica, el artículo explora el potencial de dichos centros para dar forma a y ser moldeados por las prácticas en el paisaje del cuidado. La observación participante extensa y las entrevistas a clientes ancianos, gerentes y profesionales nos permitieron acercarnos al 'hacer ARTICLE HISTORY
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