Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care (eBook)

A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim

Sonya Michel, Ito Peng (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XIII, 316 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783319550862 (ISBN)

Infos

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. 

Sonya Michel is Professor Emerita of History, American Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Ito Peng is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada.

Inhalt

PART I: Caring Around the Pacific Rim1. Global Epicenters of Care Migration2. Intersections of Migrant Care Work: An OverviewPART II:  Everyday Realities and Cultures of Care3. Immigrant Women and Home-based Care in Oakland, California’s Chinatown4. Home Care for Elders in China's Rural-Urban Dualism: Care Workers' Fractured Experiences5. How Mexican Immigrant Mothers Experience Care and the Ideals of MotherhoodPART III: All (Global) Politics are Local6. Responses to Abuse against Migrant Domestic Workers: A Multi-Scalar Comparison of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai7. Out of Kilter: Changing Care, Migration and Employment Regimes in Australia8. Closing the Open Door? Canada's Changing Policy for Migrant Caregivers9. Explaining Exceptionality: Care and Migration Policies in Japan and South KoreaPART IV: From the Global to the Local, and Back Again10. The Grassroots-Global Dialectic: International Policy as an Anchor for Domestic Worker Organizing11. The Intimate Knows No Boundaries: Global Circuits of Domestic Worker Organizing12. Out of Focus: Migrant Women Caregivers as Seen by the ILO and the OECDPART V: Going Global?Afterword: Care Going Global?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 316 p. 4 illus.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Culture of care • Gender Relations • Labor • national policies • Pacific Rim • Transnational care
• ISBN-13: 9783319550862 / 9783319550862