Migration and Care Labour: Theory, Policy and Politics (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship)

Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Theorizing Migrant Care Labour -- 1 Making Connections Across the Transnational Political Economy of Care -- 2 Nation Building: Domestic Labour and Immigration Controls in the UK -- 3 Migrant Domestic Workers as 'One of the Family' -- Part II: The Institutional Contexts of Migrant Care Labour -- 4 Three Domains of Migrant Domestic Care Work: The Interplay of Care, Employment and Migration Policies in Austria -- 5 A Right to Care? Immigration Controls and the Care Labour of Non-Citizens -- 6 Resisting Crisis at What Cost? Migrant Care Workers in Private Households -- 7 Supermaids: The Racial Branding of Global Filipino Care Labour -- 8 Transnational Households: Migrants and Care, at Home and Abroad -- Part III: Governance and Political Mobilization across Care, Work and Migration -- 9 Toward Flexibility with Security for Migrant Care Workers: A Comparative Analysis of Personal Home Care in Toronto and Los Angeles -- 10 The Global Governance of Domestic Work -- Conclusion -- Index Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Making Connections Across the Transnational Political Economy of Care....Pages 11-30 Nation Building: Domestic Labour and Immigration Controls in the UK....Pages 31-48 Migrant Domestic Workers as ‘One of the Family’....Pages 49-64 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Three Domains of Migrant Domestic Care Work: The Interplay of Care, Employment and Migration Policies in Austria....Pages 67-86 A Right to Care? Immigration Controls and the Care Labour of Non-Citizens....Pages 87-109 Resisting Crisis at What Cost? Migrant Care Workers in Private Households....Pages 110-129 Supermaids: The Racial Branding of Global Filipino Care Labour....Pages 130-150 Transnational Households: Migrants and Care, at Home and Abroad....Pages 151-169 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 Toward Flexibility with Security for Migrant Care Workers: A Comparative Analysis of Personal Home Care in Toronto and Los Angeles....Pages 173-191 The Global Governance of Domestic Work....Pages 192-212 Conclusion....Pages 213-224 Back Matter....Pages 225-235 Across the world, the provision of care faces mounting challenges  � what has been widely referred to as a 'crisis of care'. In the global North, international migrants have increasingly supplemented the unpaid or low-paid care labour of women  � as domestic workers, nannies, care assistants and nurses  � in the private sphere of the home and in publicly and privately funded care services. This volume brings together international scholars on migration and care to examine the global construction of migrant care labour. The volume makes connections across theory, policy and politics with respect to care, work and migration; the inequalities of gender, race/ethnicity, class, nationality and immigration status that migrant care labour embodies; the inequalities between the global North and South, different regions and countries; the different institutional contexts of care labour that cut across the public and the private; and the different sites of political mobilisation and governance that have developed around migration and care work.-- Provided by Publisher The provision of care has been widely referred to as facing a 'crisis'. International migrants are increasingly relied upon to provide care – as domestic workers, nannies, care assistants and nurses. This international volume examines the global construction of migrant care labour and how it manifests itself in different contexts.