Globalizing Care Economies And Migrant Workers

Author : Nicola Yeates
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015078799676

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Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers by Nicola Yeates Pdf

Workers providing social and health care services lie at the heart of migration patterns underpinning current gobalization processes. Using a 'global care chains' perspective the author describes and analyses the experiences of migrant care workers, maps the extent, forms and governance of care services internationalisation and considers the policy implications in developed and developing countries. This multi-disciplinary analysis draws on original empirical research and advances a theoretical perspective that sheds new light on contemporary and historical dimensions of this migration.

Author : Floya Anthias,Mojca Pajnik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443862981

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Work and the Challenges of Belonging by Floya Anthias,Mojca Pajnik Pdf

This book engages with migrant work in globalizing economies, both in the EU and worldwide, to explore the relationships between work and the complexity of migrant belonging in transnational spaces. Migrant experiences related to global labour market structures are understood in the context of transnational and national policy frames that largely determine the production of migrant work as poorly paid, precarious, and accompanied by low status and inadequate social protection. Special foci include issues of temporality, circularity and precarity; solidarity and belonging; migrants’ strategies for coping with restrictive migration and economic policies; and practices and patterns relating to the commodification of migrant work. The book also discusses some of the analytical and political problems of migration and labour market discourses and practices, particularly in relation to developments around new forms of exclusion, securitization and ethnicization of migrant work. Work and the Challenges of Belonging is cross-disciplinary and comparative, engaging with theoretical, empirical and policy approaches.

Author : Rhacel Parreñas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804796187

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Servants of Globalization by Rhacel Parreñas Pdf

Servants of Globalization offers a groundbreaking study of migrant Filipino domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the caretaking work of the global economy. Since its initial publication, the book has informed countless students and scholars and set the research agenda on labor migration and transnational families. With this second edition, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas returns to Rome and Los Angeles to consider how the migrant communities have changed. Children have now joined their parents. Male domestic workers are present in significantly greater numbers. And, perhaps most troubling, the population has aged, presenting new challenges for the increasingly elderly domestic workers. New chapters discuss these three increasingly important constituencies. The entire book has been revised and updated, and a new introduction offers a global, comparative overview of the citizenship status of migrant domestic workers. Servants of Globalization remains the defining work on the international division of reproductive labor.

Author : Professor Helma Lutz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848132894

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The New Maids by Professor Helma Lutz Pdf

The New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy. Expertly addressing the thorny questions that surround the increasing number of migrant domestic workers and cleaners, child-carers and caregivers who maintain modern Western households, the author argues that domestic work plays the defining role in global ethnic and gender hierarchies. Using a central ethnographic study of immigrant domestic workers and their German employees as its starting point, The New Maids uses the voices of such women themselves to provide unique conceptual and evidential support for this vital new approach argument. This exciting book will not only enhance the reader's understanding of the new care-economy, it also sets standards for feminist global methodology.

Author : John Connell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781849805186

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Migration and the Globalisation of Health Care by John Connell Pdf

The international migration of health workers has been described by Nelson Mandela as the poaching of desperately needed skills from under-privileged regions. This book examines the controversial recent history of skilled migration, and explores the economic and cultural rationale behind this rise of a complex global market in qualified migrants and its multifaceted outcomes. John Connell pays particular attention to the increase in demand for migrants in more developed countries due to the complex ramifications of aging, and new opportunities and expectations. He illustrates how globalization has linked sub-Saharan Africa to Europe and North America, and created new demand in Japan for international migrants from China and isolated island states. The long-established skill-drain, with its impact on household relations and negative consequences for health care, is carefully balanced against new flows of remittances, the return of skills and complex regional changes. Wide-ranging policy interventions, and greater social justice, have been challenged by the rise of the competition state and limitations to economic growth in the global south. This comprehensive and definitive analysis of the global migration of health workers will prove an essential resource for academics and research students in health and social policy, and in the various disciplines that relate to migration, including sociology, economics and geography.

Author : B. Anderson,I. Shutes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137319708

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Migration and Care Labour by B. Anderson,I. Shutes Pdf

The provision of care has been widely referred to as facing a 'crisis'. International migrants are increasingly relied upon to provide care – as domestic workers, nannies, care assistants and nurses. This international volume examines the global construction of migrant care labour and how it manifests itself in different contexts.

Author : Sonya Michel,Ito Peng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319550862

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Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care by Sonya Michel,Ito Peng Pdf

This book explores how around the world, women’s increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering of employment opportunities. As one result, the authors find, women are increasingly migrating from the global south to become care workers in the global north. This volume focuses on changing patterns of family and gender relations, migration, and care work in the countries surrounding the Pacific Rim—a global epicenter of transnational care migration. Using a multi-scalar approach that addresses micro, meso, and macro levels, chapters examine three domains: care provisioning, the supply of and demand for care work, and the shaping and framing of care. The analysis reveals that multiple forms of global inequalities are now playing out in the most intimate of spaces.

Author : Rianne Mahon,Fiona Robinson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780774821087

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Feminist Ethics and Social Policy by Rianne Mahon,Fiona Robinson Pdf

As national borders become more permeable, women are increasingly travelling from poor to rich countries to take up jobs as care workers. The struggle to maintain a healthy work-care balance in Western nations is creating a care deficit in the developing world. This volume links ethics to the social politics of care by examining the implications of the feminization of migrant labour and the shortcomings of social policy. From Canada to Sweden and from Korea to Japan, renowned and emerging scholars reveal that a truly feminist ethics of care must be grounded in the concrete lives of real people working in transnational webs of social relations.

Author : Mary Romero,Valerie Preston,Wenona Giles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134762255

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When Care Work Goes Global by Mary Romero,Valerie Preston,Wenona Giles Pdf

Women who migrate into domestic labour and care work are the single largest female occupational group migrating globally at present. Their participation in global migration systems has been acknowledged but remains under-theorized. Specifically, the impacts of women migrating into care work in the receiving as well as the sending societies are profound, altering gendered aspects of both societies. We know that migration systems link the women who migrate and the households and organizations that employ domestic and care workers, but how do these migration systems work, and more importantly, what are their impacts on the sending as well as the receiving societies? How do sending and receiving societies regulate women’s migration for care work and how do these labour market exchanges take place? How is reproductive labour changed in the receiving society when it is done by women who are subject to multifaceted othering/racializing processes? A must buy acquisition, When Care Work Goes Global will be an extremely valuable addition for course adoption in migration, labour and gender courses taught in Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Women's Studies, Area Studies, and International Development Studies.

Author : Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Publisher : Ateneo University Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Filipinos
ISBN : 9789715504492

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Servants of Globalization by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Pdf

Author : Lise Widding Isaksen
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789187121111

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Global Care Work by Lise Widding Isaksen Pdf

Presenting empirical research on the lives of care workers, sex workers, au pairs, and their families, this anthology is a unique study of gender and migration. Written by researchers from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, the account brings the Nordic example to the international debate on how globalization affects and commercializes women's traditional work and analyzes the social and legal migration regulations. Uncovering some uncomfortable facts about new ethnic hierarchies, social class, and gender discrimination in these countries, this book is an essential read for those interested in migration, care work, and gender issues.

Author : Margaret Walton-Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009217750

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Global Health Worker Migration by Margaret Walton-Roberts Pdf

International skilled heath worker migration is a key feature of the global economy, a major contributor to socio-economic development and reflective of the transnationalization of health and elder care that is underway in most OECD nations. The distribution of care and health workforce planning has previously been analysed solely within national contexts, but increasingly scholars have shown how care deficits are being addressed through transnational responses. This Element examines the complex processes that feed health worker migrants into global circulation, the losses and gains associated with such mobility and examples of good practices, where migrants, sending and destination communities experience the best possible outcomes. It will approach this issue through the lens of problems, and solutions, making connections across the micro, meso and macro within and across the sections.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 036724733X

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Migration Gender and Care Economy by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This volume closely analyses women's role and experiences in migration (internal and international) and its interlinkages with the care economy in their functions as nurses and paid domestic workers as well as unpaid carers. Bringing together case studies from across India and other parts of the world, the essays in the volume capture the characteristics and specificities of female migration in different settings -- be it for economic or associational reasons, or as left behind members. The book also looks at gender-specific discriminations and vulnerabilities along with the empowering aspects of migration. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of migration, gender studies, sociology, and social anthropology, as well as development studies, demography, and economics.

Author : Ester Gallo,Francesca Scrinzi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137379788

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Migration, Masculinities and Reproductive Labour by Ester Gallo,Francesca Scrinzi Pdf

This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour. Exploring the gendered experiences of migrant men and the social construction of racialised masculinities in the context of the 'international division of reproductive labour' (IDRL), it examines how new patterns of consumption and provision of paid domestic/care work lead to forms of inequality across racial, ethnic, gender and class lines. Based on an ethnographic analysis of the working and family lives of migrant men within the IDRL, it focuses on the practices and strategies of migrant men employed as domestic/care workers in Italy. The authors highlight how migrant men's experiences of reproductive labour and family are shaped by global forces and national public policies, and how they negotiate the changes and potential conflicts that their 'feminised' jobs entail. They draw on the voices of men and women of different nationalities to show how masculinities are constructed within the home through migrant men's interactions with male and female employers, women relations and their wider ethnic network. Bridging the divide between scholarship on international migration, care work and masculinity studies, this book will interest sociologists, anthropologists, economists, political scientists and social policy experts.

Author : Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780776617800

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Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China by Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan Pdf

Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent-minded scholars and practitioners in China. Their assessments of the challenges facing China in the areas of discrimination and inequality not only attest to their personal courage and intellectual freedom but also add an important perspective on this emerging superpower.