Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care

Sonya Michel is Professor Emerita of History, American Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.Ito Peng is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada.

• 1. Global Epicenters of Care Migration.- 2. Intersections of Migrant Care Work: An Overview.- 3. Immigrant Women and Home-based Elder Care in Oakland, California’s Chinatown.- 4. Home Care for Elders in China's Rural-Urban Dualism: Care Workers' Fractured Experiences.- 5. How Mexican Immigrant Mothers Experience Care and the Ideals of Motherhood.- 6. Responses to Abuse against Migrant Domestic Workers: A Multi-Scalar Comparison of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.- 7. Out of Kilter: Changing Care, Migration and Employment Regimes in Australia.- 8. Closing the Open Door? Canada's Changing Policy for Migrant Caregivers.- 9. Explaining Exceptionality: Care and Migration Policies in Japan and South Korea.- 10. The Grassroots-Global Dialectic: International Policy as an Anchor for Domestic Worker Organizing.- 11. The Intimate Knows No Boundaries: Global Circuits of Domestic Worker Organizing.- 12. Out ofFocus: Migrant Women Caregivers as Seen by the ILO and the OECD.- 13. Afterword: Care Going Global?.