Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care

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

3. Everyday Realities and Cultures of Care

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Immigrant Women and Home-Based Elder Care in Oakland, California’s Chinatown

      • Cynthia Cranford, Jennifer Jihye Chun

      Pages 41-66

   3. Home Care for Elders in China’s Rural-Urban Dualism: Care Workers’ Fractured Experiences

      • Liu Hong

      Pages 67-89

   4. Caring for Your Children: How Mexican Immigrant Mothers Experience Care and the Ideals of Motherhood

      • Gabrielle Oliveira

      Pages 91-112

4. All (Global) Politics are Local

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Responses to Abuse Against Migrant Domestic Workers: A Multi-scalar Comparison of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai

      • André Laliberté

      Pages 115-141

   3. Out of Kilter: Changing Care, Migration and Employment Regimes in Australia

      • Deborah Brennan, Sara Charlesworth, Elizabeth Adamson, Natasha Cortis

      Pages 143-165

   4. Closing the Open Door? Canada’s Changing Policy for Migrant Caregivers

      • Monica Boyd

      Pages 167-189

   5. Explaining Exceptionality: Care and Migration Policies in Japan and South Korea

      • Ito Peng

      Pages 191-214

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 Undén

      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. 

• Pacific Rim
• Gender relations
• Transnational care
• Labor
• National policies
• Culture of care

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

  Sonya Michel

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

  Ito Peng

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.

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