Title: Globalizing care economies and migrant workers : explorations in global care chains /
Authors: Yeates, Nicola
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Transients and Migrants; Women; Employment; Nurses economics; Women Employment Foreign countries.; Women caregivers Economic aspects.; Nurses.; Sisterhoods Economic aspects.; Women foreign workers.; Labor mobility.; Transnationalism.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The globalisation of care -- 3. Global care chains -- 4. Global nursing care chains -- 5. Exporting nurses from Ireland -- 6. Importing nurses into Ireland -- 7. Global religious care chains -- 8. Conclusion.