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. 
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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.
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1. Global Epicenters of Care Migration.- 2. Intersections of Migrant Care Work: An Overview.- 3. Immigrant Women and Home-based Elder Care in Oakland, California’s Chinatown.- 4. Home Care for Elders in China's Rural-Urban Dualism: Care Workers' Fractured Experiences.- 5. How Mexican Immigrant Mothers Experience Care and the Ideals of Motherhood.- 6. Responses to Abuse against Migrant Domestic Workers: A Multi-Scalar Comparison of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.- 7. Out of Kilter: Changing Care, Migration and Employment Regimes in Australia.- 8. Closing the Open Door? Canada's Changing Policy for Migrant Caregivers.- 9. Explaining Exceptionality: Care and Migration Policies in Japan and South Korea.- 10. The Grassroots-Global Dialectic: International Policy as an Anchor for Domestic Worker Organizing.- 11. The Intimate Knows No Boundaries: Global Circuits of Domestic Worker Organizing.- 12. Out ofFocus: Migrant Women Caregivers as Seen by the ILO and the OECD.- 13. Afterword: Care Going Global?.

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Studies the intersection of care, migration, and public policy Fills a gap in the relevant research on the Pacific Rim Examines the global division of care labor Analyzes transnational care migration from a multi-scalar and comparative perspective
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9783319550855
Publisert
2017-09-07
Utgiver
Springer International Publishing AG
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Biografisk notat

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.