Transacting Care Transnationally: Remittances and Agency Within Global Care Chains

Ramsøy, Ingrid Jerve

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“…Most often examined with reference to women migrant domestic workers, research in this area has interrogated gendered care norms within migrant households (Hoang & Yeoh, 2011; Locke, 2017), assessed the livelihood implications for paid and unpaid substitute care providers (Cooray, 2017; Peng & Wong, 2016), and challenged the very notion that care practices necessarily cease during transnational family separation (Ahlin & Sen, 2020; Baldassar & Merla, 2014). Indeed, scholarship on this latter theme of ‘care circulation’ has made important contributions to the way care practices are understood at a typological level, highlighting the ways in which care responsibilities continue beyond the household and across borders—whether directly providing care through the proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) (Ahlin, 2018; Baldassar & Wilding, 2022), managing care needs by financing and organising substitute caregiving (Parreñas, 2000), or remitting ‘in‐kind’ care in the form of material goods (Ramsøy, 2016; Ullah et al, 2022). Yet, even more so than the global care chains literature, the relationship between migration and care is here largely de‐linked from discussion of development policy or outcomes.…”

Section: The Migration‐care‐development Nexus: An Analytical Frameworkmentioning

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Migration and development, without care? Locating transnational care practices in the migration‐development debate

Withers

Hill

2023

Population Space and Place

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Highly‐restrictive temporary labour migration schemes are commonplace throughout the Indo‐Pacific region and continue to expand amid sustained policy enthusiasm for ‘migration‐development’. Yet, the developmental benefits of guestworker schemes are routinely evaluated according to narrow economic criteria, with little consideration given to transnational family separation and the displacement of socially reproductive labour that sustains everyday life. ‘Migration’, ‘development’ and ‘care’ are deeply interlinked political economic processes, yet they have been theorised in partial isolation. We challenge this analytical disconnect, situating the developmental implications of guestworker migration in relation to the total social organisation of labour, and argue for a more holistic ‘migration‐care‐development' nexus that foregrounds unsustainable disruptions to care economies. We ground our framework in the context of Australia's Pacific Labour Scheme to illustrate the developmental consequences for Pasifika households and communities, highlighting the need for ‘decent care’ policies to address care deficits in support of sustainable and gender‐equitable development.

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Section: The Migration‐care‐development Nexus: An Analytical Frameworkmentioning

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Migration and development, without care? Locating transnational care practices in the migration‐development debate

Withers

Hill

2023

Population Space and Place

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“…Carling, Bivand Erdal, & Horst, 2012; King, Castaldo, & Vullnetari, 2011). Two recent studies that use Carling's (2014) concept of script are solely based on qualitative approaches and ethnographic research (Brown, 2016; Ramsøy, 2016). We adopt the ethnosurvey as the research strategy, as described in Massey (1987).…”

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“…In spite of the importance of remittance flows sent from Spain to Bolivia (see also González, Martín, Renau, & Blanco, 2012), little attention has been paid to their motivations (Roig & Recaño, 2012) and meanings. In an ethnographic study of female Bolivian domestic workers in the Basque Country (a Spanish region), Ramsøy (2016) builds on Carling's concept of script to show how care is transmitted transnationally throughout remittances.…”

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A Mixed‐Method Analysis of Remittance Scripts Among Bolivian Immigrants in Spain

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Silvestre

Petroff

2021

J of Intl Development

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The use of mixed methods to deal with the complexity of remittance motivations is still infrequent. This paper uses statistical and qualitative data and provides evidence on the conceptual framework for understanding remittance behaviour proposed by the scholar Jørgen Carling. Carling's 'remittance scripts' understand remittances as multifaceted transactions and enrich the assessment of the relationship between remittances and development at origin. We use quantitative and qualitative data, both extracted from an ethnosurvey conducted in Spain, to shed light on the situation of transnational Bolivian immigrants after the economic crisis of 2008. We argue that the transactions are best represented by the necessity to provide for the recipients' basic needs.

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“…The transnational relationships that feed into the global market of care also enter into adjacent, and often interconnecting webs of exchange. While the webs of more altruistic solidarity become practical and concrete in that they involve consumption through event organization, danc-ing, and eating/drinking, these transnational relationships are marked by more than what is most commonly described in migration theory as remittances (Carling 2014, Ramsøy 2016, Levitt 1998, Levitt & Lamba-Nieves 2011, Nowicka & Šerbedžija 2016. As such, the solidarity practiced through, for instance, kermeses, is a way of not only stabilizing someone's economic situation in migrancy, it is also a way of contributing to the future economic wellbeing of that someone's family 'at home'.…”

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Expectation and Experiences of Exchange: Migrancy in the Global Market of Care between Spain and Bolivia

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xv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSPrimero, mi más sincera gratitud va dirigida a todas las, y los, participantes en esta investigación. Me gustaría agradecerles a todas individualmente, honrando sus nombres, pero por razones evidentes de ética tendrá que ser suficiente expresar que esta tesis no existiría sin ustedes. Gracias por su trabajo y por compartir conmigo sus vidas, historias, risas, danzas, y lágrimas. Gracias por invitarme a compartir sus espacios, sus hogares, sus comidas y bebidas. Me han enseñado tanto, no sólo sobre los temas investigados acá, sino también sobre nosotres les humanes y las vidas que vivimos. Con todo lo que me trajo la vida durante el tiempo en que esta investigación se desenvolvía, estoy muy agradecida de que fue con ustedes como compañeras de camino.[My sincerest gratitude goes, first of all, to all the participants in this research. I would single out every one of you and honor your names, but for obvious ethical reasons it must suffice to say that this thesis would not exist without you. You have taught me so much, not only about the topics that this book explores, but about myself, humanity, and about the lives we lead. Thank you for welcoming me into your lives, tell me your stories, host me in your homes, dance, eat, drink, laugh and cry with me. The years it took to do this research has entailed so much change for all of us -losses and gains -and I am very thankful I got to go through it with you in my life.] xvi Second, thank you to everyone in the academic world who have contributed in different ways to making this thesis happen:To my supervisors Pieter Bevelander, Russell King, and Anne Marie Ejdegaard Jeppesen for their support through all of this, both academically, and personally. Thank you for reading my texts, for listening, and for letting me explore my material in so many different ways, always with your encouragement and advice. Thanks especially to Pieter for helping me across bumps in the road on the way, to Russell for your sound academic guidance and for showing me the ropes of the academic world, and to Anne Marie for your epistemic empathy and shared passion for knowledges hailing from Latin America(ns).

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Transacting Care Transnationally: Remittances and Agency Within Global Care Chains

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Migration and development, without care? Locating transnational care practices in the migration‐development debate

Migration and development, without care? Locating transnational care practices in the migration‐development debate

A Mixed‐Method Analysis of Remittance Scripts Among Bolivian Immigrants in Spain

Expectation and Experiences of Exchange: Migrancy in the Global Market of Care between Spain and Bolivia

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