Globalization, transnational migration, and gendered care work: Introduction

Pyle, Jean L.

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“…The paper does not distinguish between authorized (legal, documented) and unauthorized im/migrants for several reasons: unauthorized migration is not likely to be eliminated despite technological and old-fashioned fences and all varieties of border patrols; many issues are shared by authorized and unauthorized migrants; and human security of long-term residents is affected by treatment of recent migrants (there are many spill-over effects related to health and education, for example). 4 Domestic service work is the top category of employment for women migrants, but the demand for other types of care work, such as elder care, childcare and healthcare, is growing (see Pyle, 2006). 5 The lower amount is based on officially recorded accounts and the higher estimate includes informal remittances.…”

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“…Remittances bring in potential investment funds that offset these concerns to some extent, but developing countries are having difficulty supplying care workers for their own needs. There is a break in the chain of care for children, the elderly and the ill (Meerman, 2001Parrenas, 2002;Pyle, 2006).Women can no longer cover these tasks through unpaid labour because they need to work to contribute to household income, and they are often the ones migrating. The brain-drain discourse is particularly focused on health-care professionals, and a number of policy options have been discussed to address the problem; for example, the more developed counDevelopment 50(4): Thematic Section tries that receive the workers could provide special training programmes for workers who will remain in the developing countries for a certain number of years or find ways of providing incentives to augment their own supply of care workers (Summerfield et al, 2006).…”

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Transnational Migration, Gender and Human Security

Summerfield¹

2007

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Gale Summerfield examines the gender and human security aspects of transnational migration. Human security is taken here as an emphasis on basic needs, sustainability of a set of core capabilities and agency of people as full participants in society, for which gender equity is essential. Summerfield focuses on two key areas of rapid change: the global labour market for services and remittances for financing development through a case study on gender and human security of Latina/o immigrants in central Illinois. Development (2007) 50, 13–18. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100420

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Transnational Migration, Gender and Human Security

Summerfield¹

2007

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“…Because of the large number of potential explanatory variables, testing of multiplicative interaction terms between significant co-variates for each regression model was primarily guided by theories of healthy migrant effect (i.e. push and pull theory [37][38][39] , cumulative causation theory [40][41][42][43] , globalization and migration [44][45][46] ). Rather than testing all possible interactions, these were restricted to terms of scientific interest and literature to support their exploration.…”

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Testing the Latino paradox in Latin America: A population-based study of Intra-regional immigrants in Chile

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“…The latest governmental figures indicate that currently Chile is experiencing a “new immigration” pattern with a majority of Latin American immigrants of working age, seeking labour opportunities [2]. There has also been increasing female immigration in the Latin American region, including Chile [3,21], in particular to work in manual and domestic services [22]. …”

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Understanding differences in access and use of healthcare between international immigrants to Chile and the Chilean-born: a repeated cross-sectional population-based study in Chile

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International Journal for Equity in Health

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IntroductionInternational evidence indicates consistently lower rates of access and use of healthcare by international immigrants. Factors associated with this phenomenon vary significantly depending on the context. Some research into the health of immigrants has been conducted in Latin America, mostly from a qualitative perspective. This population-based study is the first quantitative study to explore healthcare provision entitlement and use of healthcare services by immigrants in Chile and compare them to the Chilean-born.MethodsData come from the nationally representative CASEN (Socioeconomic characterization of the population in Chile) surveys, conducted in 2006 and 2009. Self-reported immigrants were compared to the Chilean-born, by demographic characteristics (age, sex, urban/rural, household composition, ethnicity), socioeconomic status (SES: education, household income, contractual status), healthcare provision entitlement (public, private, other, none), and use of primary services. Weighted descriptive, stratified and adjusted regression models were used to analyse factors associated with access to and use of healthcare.ResultsThere was an increase in self-reported immigrant status and in household income inequality among immigrants between 2006 and 2009. Over time there was a decrease in the rate of immigrants reporting no healthcare provision and an increase in reporting of private healthcare provision entitlement. Compared to the Chilean-born, immigrants reported higher rates of use of antenatal and gynaecological care, lower use of well-baby care, and no difference in the use of Pap smears or the number of attentions received in the last three months. Immigrants in the bottom income quintile were four times more likely to report no healthcare provision than their equivalent Chilean-born group (with different health needs, i.e. vertical inequity). Disabled immigrants were more likely to have no healthcare provision compared to the disabled Chilean-born (with similar health needs, i.e. horizontal inequity). Factors associated with immigrants’ access to, and use of, healthcare were sex, urban/rural status, education and country of origin.ConclusionThere were significant associations between SES, and access to and use of healthcare among immigrants in Chile and a higher prevalence of no health care provision entitlement among poor and disabled immigrants compared to the Chilean-born. Changing associations between access and use of healthcare and SES among immigrants in Chile over time may reflect changes in their socio-demographic composition or in the survey methodology between 2006 and 2009.ResumenIntroducciónLa evidencia internacional indica menor acceso y uso de servicios de salud por parte de inmigrantes, pero sus factores desencadenantes varían significativamente dependiendo del contexto. Algunas investigaciones se han desarrollado en este tema en América Latina, desde una perspectiva cualitativa. Este estudio cuantitativo exploró el auto-reporte de acceso y uso de servicios de salud de inmigrante...

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Globalization, transnational migration, and gendered care work: Introduction

Cited by 28 publications

References 35 publications

Transnational Migration, Gender and Human Security

Transnational Migration, Gender and Human Security

Testing the Latino paradox in Latin America: A population-based study of Intra-regional immigrants in Chile

Understanding differences in access and use of healthcare between international immigrants to Chile and the Chilean-born: a repeated cross-sectional population-based study in Chile

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