Gaining from Migration

Dayton-Johnson, Jeff; Katseli, Louka T.; Maniatis, Gregory; Münz, Rainer; Papademetriou, Demetrios G.

doi:10.1787/9789264037410-en

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“…Macro-economists from powerful institutions like the World Bank often describe migrants’ remittances to their countries of origin as a ‘driver’ of development (see Dayton-Johnson et al, 2007). Their assessments derive from the fact that hard currency transfers by migrants are the most important source of income in many of the sending countries’ national budgets.…”

Section: The Global Care Chain Concept (Gccc)mentioning

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Care migration: The connectivity between care chains, care circulation and transnational social inequality

Lutz

2018

Current Sociology

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One of the features of the global commodification of care is the outsourcing of care work to migrants. The aim of this article is to investigate theoretical responses to the incorporation of migrant care workers in transnational care arrangements. After a description of the scope of migrant care labour and the global care economy, the article summarizes the challenges posed by this empirical phenomenon and asks to what extent care migrations on a global scale have common denominators. The author discusses three topical concepts dealing with the impact of care migration for migrant caregivers and for their significant others who stay behind. The first is the Global Care Chain Concept, with its particular importance for transnational parenting; the second is the Care Circulation Concept. In different ways, both of them shed light on the contradictory characteristics of care migration. I then argue that the third concept, the theory of Transnational Social Inequality, is a necessary addition. By focusing on migrant care workers’ contradictory position, this concept aims at understanding the new features of asymmetrical resource distribution in their global manifestation. Taken together, these concepts are considered helpful tools to analyse the commonalities and differences of a large range of specific cases. Many examples used in this article are concerned with care migration in Europe.

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Section: The Global Care Chain Concept (Gccc)mentioning

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Care migration: The connectivity between care chains, care circulation and transnational social inequality

Lutz

2018

Current Sociology

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“…Under-saving or not saving at all may influence variable consumption and low resilience to shocks (Karlan, Ratan & Zinman 2014). Migrant women could be vulnerable because they are not saving, but as groups, the migrant women are investing in their home countries and also using the money to educate their families and themselves (Dayton-Johnson et al 2009). The rating of the stokvels and burial societies was very low at 61.1% because most burial societies cater for local burials.…”

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“…A healthy and knowledgeable human capital could be beneficial to South Africa. Self-employed migrant women not only come to South Africa with a high level of skills and knowledge, but also provide the much-needed ‘capital brings capital investment’ (Dayton-Johnson et al 2009). Hence, the ratings of the capital factors ranged from (1) health, (2) capacity to work, (3) knowledge and skills and (4) education.…”

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Coping and adaptation mechanisms employed by sub-Saharan African migrant women in South Africa

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Bahta

Jordaan

2019

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This article assesses the socio-economic coping and adaptation mechanisms employed by sub-Saharan African migrant women in South Africa using a survey and multi-attribute contingent ratings. The socio-economic and adaptation mechanisms were identified using a sustainable livelihood framework, which included political and cultural capital. This study focused on the rarely investigated South-South migration flows. The results found that the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of migrant women played a significant role in the coping and adaptation mechanisms they employed. Human capital ranked the highest, followed by physical, cultural, social, economic and political capitals. This implies that the livelihood capital has an implication: the migrant women need to have education and health services to survive in day-to-day activities of their life as human capital. They need also to sustain economically at least to cover house rent, food, communicate with family and assist the family as economic and physical capitals. Furthermore, they need to adapt, respect and live with the culture of the host nation in harmony and conducive environment as social, cultural and political capitals.

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“…Counseling services for children could be easily funded, in many of the countries that send migrants, by using some of the taxes on remittances. According to Dayton-Johnson et al, economists in global institutions like the World Bank think that remittances sent by migrants from Third World countries constitute a significant source of income and development (Dayton-Johnson et al 2007). The same holds true for some European countries from the former Soviet bloc, such as Romania where remittances in 2006 reached €4.…”

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Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights

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2014

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Gaining from Migration

Cited by 22 publications

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Care migration: The connectivity between care chains, care circulation and transnational social inequality

Care migration: The connectivity between care chains, care circulation and transnational social inequality

Coping and adaptation mechanisms employed by sub-Saharan African migrant women in South Africa

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