Globalizing care economies and migrant workers : explorations in global care chains / Nicola Yeates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeates, Nicola.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Foreign countries.

Women.

Women caregivers--Economic aspects.

Women caregivers.

Nursing.

Nurses.

Sisterhoods--Economic aspects.

Sisterhoods.

Women foreign workers.

Labor mobility.

Transnationalism.

Women--Employment.

Foreign countries.

Physical Description:

xv, 258 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Global care chains.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

This major work combines theoretical innovation with systematic empirical substance to explore the contours and dynamics of a major global social phenomenon - the globalization of reproductive labour. Grounded in careful historical analysis, the book offers key insights into key actors in contemporary globalization processes: migrant care workers. Expanding the traditional focus on domestic workers, the book presents an important analysis of the international migration of professional nurses and religious care workers - and the part they play in forging the 'new' global reproductive economy. Covering a range of countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, this innovative inter-disciplinary analysis of a major global phenomenon of our time is essential reading for students and scholars interested in migration, globalization and gender.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

1 Myra's story 1

2 Context, aims and approach of the book 3

3 The origins of this book 7

4 Organisation of the book 8

2 The Globalisation of Care 11

1 Introduction 11

2 The globalisation of production and labour 12

3 The globalisation of reproductive labour 18

4 Review 38

3 Global Care Chains 40

1 Introduction: The global care chain concept 40

2 Locating the global care chain concept 42

3 Extending the global care chain concept 48

4 The analytical elements of an expanded global care chain analysis 59

5 Issues in global care chain analysis 66

6 From analytical framework to its application 73

4 Global Nursing Care Chains 75

1 Introduction 75

2 International nurse migration: An overview 77

3 Production of nurses 85

4 Recruiting and moving the nurses 104

5 Governance of entry to overseas nursing 110

6 Labour integration and management 116

7 Distributive spatialities of global nursing care chains 119

5 Exporting Nurses from Ireland 123

1 Introduction 123

2 A brief history of Irish migration 124

3 Irish nurses and Britain: Colonial and post-colonial ties 128

4 Irish nurse migration to other countries 136

5 Recruitment agencies and strategies 141

6 Conclusions 145

6 Importing Nurses into Ireland 146

1 Introduction 146

2 The context of nurse immigration: Producing vacancies 148

3 Migration of nurses into Ireland 151

4 Living the Global Nursing Care Chain 163

5 Conclusions 177

7 Global Religious Care Chains 179

1 Introduction 179

2 The development of the religious care economy 184

3 Waves and destinations of Irish religious migration 191

4 Missionaries 200

5 Return of the migrant church 206

6 Review 213

8 Conclusion 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-248) and index.

ISBN:

0230005349

9780230005341

OCLC:

148906710