Gender, migration and care deficits: what role for the sustainable development goals?

Gammage and Stevanovic place global care chains within the policy world of the SDGs. They ask what sending states, receiving states, and international development frameworks owe when women’s migration fills care needs in higher-income countries while creating deficits elsewhere.

For FemRes, the article moves care economy beyond moral recognition into policy analysis. Care deficits are not private household problems; they sit at the intersection of development, migration, labor rights, and gender equality.