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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Michel, Sonya (Editor), Peng, Ito (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Emigration and immigration.; Social service.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319550862
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55086-2
• Physical Description: XIII, 316 p. 4 illus. online resource.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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 of Focus: Migrant Women Caregivers as Seen by the ILO and the OECD
• 13. Afterword: Care Going Global?.