Overview
- 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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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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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Caring Around the Pacific Rim
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Everyday Realities and Cultures of Care
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All (Global) Politics are Local
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From the Global to the Local, and Back Again
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Going Global?
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Ito Peng is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care
Book Subtitle: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim
Editors: Sonya Michel, Ito Peng
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55086-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55085-5Published: 07 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85563-9Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55086-2Published: 21 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 316
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Migration, Social Care