Beyond the Global Care Chain: Boundaries, Institutions and Ethics of Care

Nguyen, Minh Tam; Zavoretti, Roberta; Tronto, Joan C.

doi:10.1080/17496535.2017.1300308

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“…Work in that area has increasingly attended to the ways that care regimes are shaped both by increasing demand for care and domestic workers and by different systems that seek to promote, regulate and control the movement of people who provide that care (Rodriguez 2010;Michel & Peng 2017). Scholars have also attempted to nuance this perspective both by attending to shifting gender dynamics that include men and masculinity (Pingol 2001;Johnson 2017;Locke 2017) and by moving beyond the dyadic focus on chains and labour, for instance highlighting the 'circulation' and 'asymmetrical reciprocal exchange' of care within transnational families that have developed with increasing migration flows (Baldassar & Merla 2014: 6, see also Nguyen et al 2017). There has thus been a growing recognition that migrants, women and men, are both providers and recipients of care across a complex transnational landscape.…”

Section: Engaging With Care and Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Care and Control in Asian Migrations

Johnson

Lindquist

2019

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This article takes the relationship between care and control as a starting point for ethnographically approaching the dynamics of Asian migrations. The pairing of care and control allows for a description of how migration takes shape through the historical development of entangled relationshipsranging from the supportive to the coerciverather than strictly through dyadic relationships, social networks, structural forces, or as an effect of push-pull factors. Asian migration is thus approached as a socio-political field that is shaped through emerging forms of care and control which is shaped and constrained, for instance, by the state, market, social relations, brokers, and fellow travellers.

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Section: Engaging With Care and Controlmentioning

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Care and Control in Asian Migrations

Johnson

Lindquist

2019

Ethnos

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“…As a socio-culturally embedded practice, care cannot be understood in the abstract. Care depends on cultural notions of gender roles relating to rights and obligations to give and receive care, whereby men and women are expected to behave according to the appropriate gender roles prevalent in a specific society (Nguyen, Zavoretti and Tronto 2017;Mazzucato and Schans 2011). Therefore, in analysing the lived experiences of those giving and receiving care, it is crucial to understand the role of context, where structures and power-relations impact the difficult moral decisions and the practical tasks of care (Barnes 2012).…”

Section: Care As a Culturally Embedded Practice: Women's Bodies And Smentioning

confidence: 99%

The gendered burden of transnational care-receiving: Sudanese families across The Netherlands, the UK and Sudan

Mingot

2019

Gender, Place & Culture

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Care circulated within transnational families is a crucial element in the families' social protection and reproduction transnational social protection arrangements, based on a system of reciprocity between migrants and their families 'back home'. Recent studies have shown the complexities of transnational caregiving arrangements, yet the focus has remained on the provision of care between parents and children, largely neglecting the intricacies of care-receiving within extended family networks. Care may feel differently depending on the perspective of either the provider or the receiver. Despite the caregiver's good intentions, care might be experienced as a burden by the receiver. Moreover, as a culturally embedded practice, receiving care across culturally and geographically distant contexts may present additional challenges. This paper investigates the agency of female care-receivers to navigate the care provided by different male family members abroad, while protecting themselves and their children's wellbeing. Rather than focusing on caregiving practices between parents and children, this article addresses care dynamics within extended families. Drawing on a multi-sited matched-sample ethnography with Sudanese transnational families across the Netherlands, the UK and Sudan, I examine the strategies of these women to manoeuvre the reception of unwanted care while avoiding conflict with their relatives and gaining control of their own and their children's bodies. In exploring the intricacies of care-receiving in transnational family networks, I analyse how geographical distance may exacerbate the perception of different care needs, while at the same time giving the care-receivers more space to navigate the reception of unsolicited care.

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“…For too long, as Nguyen, Zavoretti, and Tronto () noted, ‘care was thought to be confined to the home and not relevant to public life' (p. 199). Since the commercialization of care and what can be considered the ‘caring' economy, the meanings and baggage of care have changed.…”

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“…From this, we can unravel and reconceptualize care, to tease out how care has been operationalized outside of the home. For example, Nguyen et al () explored the neoliberal project that creates ‘a realignment between the emergent ideas of selfhood, such as the new‐prudentialist subject and ethical citizens' (p. 209). Others who have examined care, such as Shahra Razavi (), think through the political and social economy of care and trace the lack of women's presence in dominant economic discourses to the over‐privileging of monetized aspects of the economy, which has consistently ignored the realm of unpaid work.…”

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Who cares? A lack of self‐care for women in the non‐profit/non‐governmental sector

Bandali

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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In this article I examine the lack of self‐care regimes for women working in the non‐profit/non‐governmental sector. While I draw on ethnographic research conducted in the Malaysian context of women's organizations, the issue of self‐care for activists and feminist activists is a global one that crosses borders and boundaries. I explore the gendered nature of care and care professions to demonstrate how women are predominantly affected in these working environments. To date, there has been little scholarship on self‐care and care in non‐profit/non‐governmental working environments. Using interviews with women working in the sector, I argue that women's emotional, mental and physical health comes at a cost in these hectic workplaces. This article contributes to the literature on gender, work and care in women's organizations by taking seriously women's concerns working in these spaces, where they experience self‐neglect and institutional barriers in care regimes.

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Beyond the Global Care Chain: Boundaries, Institutions and Ethics of Care

Cited by 50 publications

References 34 publications

Care and Control in Asian Migrations

Care and Control in Asian Migrations

The gendered burden of transnational care-receiving: Sudanese families across The Netherlands, the UK and Sudan

Who cares? A lack of self‐care for women in the non‐profit/non‐governmental sector

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