Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim

ISBN-13: 9783319855639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 316 str.

Sonya Michel; Ito Peng

Spis treści

PART I: Caring Around the Pacific Rim

1. Global Epicenters of Care Migration

2. Intersections of Migrant Care Work: An Overview

PART II:  Everyday Realities and Cultures of Care

3. Immigrant Women and Home-based 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

PART III: All (Global) Politics are Local

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

PART IV: From the Global to the Local, and Back Again

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 of Focus: Migrant Women Caregivers as Seen by the ILO and the OECD

PART V: Going Global?

Afterword: Care Going Global?

O autorze

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.