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The reproductive labour of migrant workers
Author(s) -
PARREÑAS RHACEL SALAZAR
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
global networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.685
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1471-0374
pISSN - 1470-2266
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2012.00351.x
Subject(s) - care work , division of labour , migrant workers , geopolitics , focus (optics) , sociology , political science , economic growth , economics , work (physics) , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , politics
In this article, I revisit my formulation of the ‘international division of reproductive labour’, also known as the ‘care chain’, and address its impacts on the study of migrant care workers. I also address future directions in the study of migrant care workers, calling attention to the contributions made in this special issue, specifically the need to focus on elderly care, different organizational arrangements of care, and the geopolitics of care.