Migration
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View All →Gender, migration and care deficits: what role for the sustainable development goals?
This article connects women's migration, care deficits, and the Sustainable Development Goals, asking how global policy frameworks can respond to care responsibilities displaced across borders.
Love and Gold
Hochschild explains global care chains through the story of a Filipina migrant nanny: wealthy countries receive care while sending communities absorb care drain and emotional displacement.
The Sexual Politics of the New Abolitionism
A key article on how anti-trafficking politics links sexuality, markets, morality, and punitive state power.
Globalization and the Increase in Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side
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.
Transnational Migration: Bringing Gender In
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.
Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor
Parreñas's classic article makes global care chains concrete through migrant Filipina domestic workers, showing how care crises in middle-class households are displaced onto women from the Global South while creating new care gaps in sending communities.