GlobalizationPapers

Pyle analyzes the growth of transnational care work through globalization and social reproduction, showing how nursing, domestic work, intimate labor, and migration regimes form part of the global economy rather than private arrangements outside it.

Pessar and Mahler move migration studies away from neutral accounts of households or labor flows toward a gendered analysis of power, asking how transnational spaces shape resources, obligations, belonging, and agency.

Sassen theorizes the feminization of survival, analyzing how debt, restructuring, migration, remittances, and cross-border informal economies shift survival burdens onto poor women.