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Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care

A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim

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Editors:
  1. Sonya Michel

    1. Department of History, University of Maryland , College Park, USA

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  2. Ito Peng

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  • Studies the intersection of care, migration, and public policy
  • Fills a gap in the relevant research on the Pacific Rim
  • Examines the global division of care labor
  • Analyzes transnational care migration from a multi-scalar and comparative perspective

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Caring Around the Pacific Rim

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Sonya Michel, Ito Peng
      Pages 3-22

    3. Intersections of Migrant Care Work: An Overview

      • Fiona Williams
      Pages 23-37

  5. From the Global to the Local, and Back Again

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. The Grassroots-Global Dialectic: International Policy as an Anchor for Domestic Worker Organizing

      • Jennifer N. Fish, Moriah Shumpert
      Pages 217-244

    3. The Intimate Knows No Boundaries: Global Circuits of Domestic Worker Organizing

      • Eileen Boris, Megan UndĂ©n
      Pages 245-268

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

      • Rianne Mahon, Sonya Michel
      Pages 269-291

  6. Going Global?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293
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    2. Care Going Global? Afterword

      • Shahra Razavi
      Pages 295-304

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 305-316
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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, 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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, University of Maryland , College Park, USA

    Sonya Michel

  • Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Ito Peng

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care

  • Book Subtitle: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim

  • Editors: Sonya Michel, Ito Peng

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55086-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55085-5Published: 07 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85563-9Published: 10 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55086-2Published: 21 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 316

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Migration, Social Care

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