Für statistische Zwecke und um bestmögliche Funktionalität zu bieten, speichert diese Website Cookies auf Ihrem Gerät. Das Speichern von Cookies kann in den Browser-Einstellungen deaktiviert werden. Wenn Sie die Website weiter nutzen, stimmen Sie der Verwendung von Cookies zu.

Cookie akzeptieren
Peng, Ito / Sonya Michel (Hrsg.). Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care - A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim. Springer International Publishing, 2017.
eng

Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care

A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim
  • Springer International Publishing
  • 2017
  • Gebunden
  • 332 Seiten
  • ISBN 9783319550855
Herausgeber: Ito Peng / Sonya Michel

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,

Mehr Weniger
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.

in Kürze

Andere Ausgaben
Taschenbuch

in Kürze