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Latin American Women in the Global Care Chains PDF Print E-mail

 

The formation of global care chains represents one of the most paradigmatic phenomena of the current process of the feminization of migration occurring within the context of globalization and the transformation of the social welfare state. a phenomenon that is reflective of the realities of the feminization of migration in the context of globalization and the need to transform social welfare systems. Studying global care chains therefore provides a valuable position from which to examine the relationship between migration and development of analysis from where the relationship between migration and development can be debated.
 
 
 

Global care chains are transnational links that form with the objective of sustaining daily life, and through which households transfer reproductive care based on axes of power such as gender, ethnicity, social class and place of origin. A basic example of a care chain could be a Spanish family who hires a Dominican woman to take care of their grandfather who requires constant assistance. Initially, the family might think that a daughter-in-law would take on the task, leaving the job she took on after her children had grown and left the home. However, she might be unwilling to return to being a full time caretaker. Furthermore, the children might agree that it would be inexpensive to employ a migrant worker for the job. At the same time, the woman who is hired will have migrated to secure sufficient income for her family, leaving her mother in charge of the children in the country of origin. This simple example illustrates the essential components of care chains.


 
 
 
 
Global Care Chains, Amaia Pérez Orozco, Gender, migration and development series,
Working Paper 2, 2007
 
 
Global perspectives on the social organization of care in times of crisis : assessing the situation, Amaia Pérez Orozco, Gender, migration and development series,
 Working Paper 5, 2009
 
  
 
 
 
Global perspectives on the social organization of care in times of crisis : assessing the policy challenges ahead, Amaia Pérez Orozco, Gender, migration and development series,
Working Paper 6, 2009
 
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UN Radio Interview
about global care chains
 
 

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MADRID, SPAIN,
Meetings on the inclusion of women in the debate
 on labour reform of care workers in Spain
 

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