Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers Explorations in Global Care Chains

by Yeates, Nicola

• ISBN13: 9780230005341
• ISBN10: 0230005349
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Workers providing social and health care services lie at the heart of migration patterns underpinning current gobalization processes. Using a 'global care chains' perspective the author describes and analyses the experiences of migrant care workers, maps the extent, forms and governance of care services internationalisation and considers the policy implications in developed and developing countries. This multi-disciplinary analysis draws on original empirical research and advances a theoretical perspective that sheds new light on contemporary and historical dimensions of this migration.

Author Biography

NICOLA YEATES is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University, UK. She is author of Globalization and Social Policy: Beyond the State?

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
List of Adverts	p. x
Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Author's Biographical Note	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Myra's story	p. 1
Context, aims and approach of the book	p. 3
The origins of this book	p. 7
Organisation of the book	p. 8
The Globalisation of Care	p. 11
Introduction	p. 11
The globalisation of production and labour	p. 12
The globalisation of reproductive labour	p. 18
Review	p. 38
Global Care Chains	p. 40
Introduction: The global care chain concept	p. 40
Locating the global care chain concept	p. 42
Extending the global care chain concept	p. 48
The analytical elements of an expanded global care chain analysis	p. 59
Issues in global care chain analysis	p. 66
From analytical framework to its application	p. 73
Global Nursing Care Chains	p. 75
Introduction	p. 75
International nurse migration: An overview	p. 77
Production of nurses	p. 85
Recruiting and moving the nurses	p. 104
Governance of entry to overseas nursing	p. 110
Labour integration and management	p. 116
Distributive spatialities of global nursing care chains	p. 119
Exporting Nurses from Ireland	p. 123
Introduction	p. 123
A brief history of Irish migration	p. 124
Irish nurses and Britain: Colonial and post-colonial ties	p. 128
Irish nurse migration to other countries	p. 136
Recruitment agencies and strategies	p. 141
Conclusions	p. 145
Importing Nurses into Ireland	p. 146
Introduction	p. 146
The context of nurse immigration: Producing vacancies	p. 148
Migration of nurses into Ireland	p. 151
Living the Global Nursing Care Chain	p. 163
Conclusions	p. 177
Global Religious Care Chains	p. 179
Introduction	p. 179
The development of the religious care economy	p. 184
Waves and destinations of Irish religious migration	p. 191
Missionaries	p. 200
Return of the migrant church	p. 206
Review	p. 213
Conclusion	p. 217
Notes	p. 226
References	p. 230
Index	p. 249
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