Globalization and Families Flashcards
How did women migrate in the past?
Women migrated as “family dependents” traveling with their husbands or joining them abroad
How do women migrate today?
They migrate indecently in search of jobs
What is the feminization of migration?
Women and men circulate differently in the global economy: women have tended to cluster around the welfare and care professions– such as the education, health and social sectors
Why is there a worldwide demand for female labor?
In the developed countries women have rapidly entered the labor market but a corresponding shift of a share of household responsibility to men has not occurred– in developed countries– women have rapidly entered the workforce and in the absence of help from male partners, many women have turned over the casework to low wage immigrants
What is the second shift?
Women return from the office and take up the second shift: the responsibility for housework and child care
Lack of family friendly policies
The lack of family friendly policies and childcare facilities makes hiring nannies and domestic workers essential for those who can afford it
Demand in elderly population?
Feminization of migration increases the longevity and size of elderly population
What has feminization of migration produced?
Gendered typed forms of migration– domestic workers and caregivers as skilled workers in health care fields, trafficking of women for the sex industry, organized migration of women for marriage
What is the care drain?
Women who care for the young, the old, the sick in the Third World migrating to the First World as maids, nannies, day care or nursing home aides
What are global care chains?
A series of links between people across the globe based on the pair or unpaid work of caring (physical and emotional labor)– women in the North pass their household duties onto low wage immigrant workers
What are the social costs of female migration?
Migration influences the person herself and her family – especially those left behind
What is a transnational family?
Families whose core members are located in at least two nation states– mobility infants and care deficits
