Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers

Exploring the globalization of reproductive labour, this book expands a traditional focus on domestic workers and presents an important analysis of the international migration of professional nurses and religious care workers. The study covers a range of countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.

'This book is certain to become a new reference point for future discussions of gender, care and globalization. Nicola Yeates combines feminist engagement with the intellectual insights of a sophisticated scholar. Her study analyses how family cultures struggle to manage the global economy and migration imperatives, and how devastating that process can be. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about gender and globalization.'

Lise Widding Isaksen, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway

'Globalising Care Economies and Migrant Workers makes a valuable contribution to the literature on women's migration and expands our formulation of the 'care chain' by including the experiences of professional migrant women workers. Its theorization of the developing global care economy makes this book a necessary read for those interested in the labor and migration of women in our global society.'

Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Professor of American Civilization at Brown University, USA

'...this detailed, informative and well-written book is a welcome addition to the international literature on global care chains, revealing their complexity and their embeddedness in global and historical processes. It extends current analysis in a number of interesting directions and should be recommended reading for scholars of global migration, globalisation, care economies, feminisation of migration and Irish migration.' - Caitríona Ní Laoire,Translocations: Migration and Social Change Journal

'Globalising Care is a valuable book, providing rich detail and thoughtful analysis of the global provision of care...Those teaching and doing research in the areas of globalization, care, family, and transnationalism will find much of value in this book. It offers broad theoretical grounding, innovative thinking, and creative conceptial tools that will further the analusis of the complexities of global care.' - Karen D. Hughes, Canadian Journal of Sociology

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NICOLA YEATES is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University, UK. She has published extensively around issues of globalization, social policy and migration. Her recent books include Globalisation and Social Policy, Understanding Global Social Policy and Social Justice: Welfare, Crime and Society. She is co-Editor of Global Social Policy: Journal of Public Policy and Social Development, a member of the editorial team of Global Applied Sociology and a member of the international advisory board of Translocations: the Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review (www.imrstr.dcu.ie).

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List of Tables and Figures Acronyms and Abbreviations Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION PART I: THE GLOBALIZATION OF CARE Introduction The Globalization of Production and Labour The Globalization of Reproductive Labour Review PART II: GLOBAL CARE CHAINS Introduction: The Global Care Chain Concept Locating the GCC Concept Extending the GCC Concept An Expanded Global Care Chains Analytical Framework Issues in GCC Analysis Conclusions PART III: GLOBAL NURSING CARE CHAINS Introduction International Nurse Migration: An Overview Production of Nurses Recruiting and Moving Nurses Governance of Entry to Overseas Nursing Labour Integration and Management Distributive Spatialities of GNCs PART IV: EXPORTING NURSES FROM IRELAND Introduction A Brief History of Irish Migration Irish Nurses and Britain: Colonial and Post-colonial Ties Irish Nurse Migration to Other Countries Nurse Recruitment Agencies and Strategies PART V: IMPORTING NURSES INTO IRELAND Introduction The Context of Nurse Immigration: Producing Vacancies Migration of Nurses into Ireland Living the Global Nursing Chain Conclusions PART VI: GLOBAL RELIGIOUS CARE CHAINS Introduction The Development of the Religious Care Economy Waves and Destinations of Irish Religious Care Migration Missionaries Return of the Migrant Church Review CONCLUSIONS References