Global care work : gender and migration in nordic societies / Lise Widding Isaksen, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Widding Isaksen, Lise.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human services--Scandinavia.

Human services.

Women--Employment--Scandinavia.

Women.

Women caregivers--Scandinavia.

Women caregivers.

Migrant labor--Scandinavia.

Migrant labor.

Women--Scandinavia--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Women--Employment.

Scandinavia--Social policy.

Scandinavia.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

240 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lund. : Nordic Academic Press, 2010.

Summary:

Global Care Work is a unique study of gender and migration. Written by researchers from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, this anthology brings the Nordic example to the international debate on how globalization affects and commercializes women's traditional work. The authors uncover some uncomfortable facts about new ethnic hierarchies, social class and gender discrimination in their countries.

The Nordic societies have a long history of active policies on gender equality and social welfare for all. But today families can 'outsource' gender equality conflicts to the global market, and on a national level the authorities can use migration policy to adjust to the needs of the labour market.

The authors present empirical research on the lives of care workers, sex workers and au pairs, their families, and the social and legal migration regulations. Global Care Work critically examines the effects of new migration patterns and globalization on the egalitarian ideologies in the Nordic countries. The book makes essential reading for those interested in migration, care work and gender issues. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: global care work in Nordic societies / Lise Widding Isaksen Isaksen, Lise Widding 9

I Domestic Work and Images of Equality

2 Au-pair migration and new inequalities: The transnational production of corruption / Helle Stenum Stenum, Helle 23

3 The snake in the grass of gender equality: Au-pairing in women-friendly Norway / Mariya Bikova Bikova, Mariya 49

4 Cultural exchange or cheap domestic labour?: Constructions of 'au pair' in four Nordic countries / Catharina Calleman Calleman, Catharina 69

5 Doing gender equality: Cleaners employed in Norwegian middle-class homes / Tove Ingebjørg Fjell Fjell, Tove Ingebjørg 97

II Transnational Experience and The Labour Market

6 Sex workers' transnational and local motherhood: presence and/or absence? / Hanne Marlene Dahl Dahl, Hanne Marlene, Marlene Spanger Spanger, Marlene 117

7 Transnational care: The social dimensions of international nurse recruitment / Lise Widding Isaksen Isaksen, Lise Widding 137

8 Care work and migration politics in Sweden / Ellinor Platzer Platzer, Ellinor 159

III The Nation, Citizenship and Democracy

9 Global care and Finnish social policy / Minna Zechner Zechner, Minna 173

10 Public care work in private contexts: A historical perspective on the Swedish welfare state / Karin Carlsson Carlsson, Karin 195

11 Global domestic workers in Denmark: Labour market regulation, union representation, and solidarity strategies / Lise Lotte Hansen Hansen, Lise Lotte 217.

ISBN:

9185509485

9789185509485

OCLC:

697774508