Open AccessNationalism, belonging, globalization and the ‘ethics of care’
Author(s) -
Nira YuvalDavis
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
kvinder, køn and forskning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-6937
pISSN - 0907-6182
DOI - 10.7146/kkf.v0i2-3.27930
Subject(s) - citizenship , nationalism , ethics of care , globalization , sociology , liberalism , character (mathematics) , political science , gender studies , law , politics , geometry , mathematics
Endowing migrant domestic workers with citizenship on the basis of a feminist ‘ethics of care', has been suggested as an alleviation of their current situation. However, concepts of formal citizenship does not take account of the way that other and less formal forms of citizenship give access to different types of resources, nor to the multi-layered character of belonging. Rather, the adoption of an ‘ethics of care' by women facilitate the smooth working of globalised neo-liberalism.