N. Yeates

Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers

Explorations in Global Care Chains

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-00534-1
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780230005341
• ISBN-10: 0230005349
• Artikelnr.: 22696145

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and FiguresAcronyms and AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsINTRODUCTIONPART I: THE GLOBALIZATION OF CAREIntroductionThe Globalization of Production and LabourThe Globalization of Reproductive LabourReviewPART II: GLOBAL CARE CHAINSIntroduction: The Global Care Chain ConceptLocating the GCC ConceptExtending the GCC ConceptAn Expanded Global Care Chains Analytical FrameworkIssues in GCC AnalysisConclusionsPART III: GLOBAL NURSING CARE CHAINSIntroductionInternational Nurse Migration: An OverviewProduction of NursesRecruiting and Moving NursesGovernance of Entry to Overseas NursingLabour Integration and ManagementDistributive Spatialities of GNCsPART IV: EXPORTING NURSES FROM IRELANDIntroductionA Brief History of Irish MigrationIrish Nurses and Britain: Colonial and Post-colonial TiesIrish Nurse Migration to Other CountriesNurse Recruitment Agencies and StrategiesPART V: IMPORTING NURSES INTO IRELANDIntroductionThe Context of Nurse Immigration: Producing VacanciesMigration of Nurses into IrelandLiving the Global Nursing ChainConclusionsPART VI: GLOBAL RELIGIOUS CARE CHAINSIntroductionThe Development of the Religious Care EconomyWaves and Destinations of Irish Religious Care MigrationMissionariesReturn of the Migrant ChurchReviewCONCLUSIONSReferences

Rezensionen

'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