Globalizing care economies and migrant workers: explorations in global care chains

Exploring the globalization of reproductive labour, this book expands a traditional focus on domestic workers and presents an important analysis of the international migration of professional nurses and religious care workers. The study covers a range of countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. ÍNDICE: - List of Tables and Figures - Acronyms and Abbreviations - Acknowledgements - INTRODUCTION - PART I: THE GLOBALIZATION OF CARE - Introduction -The Globalization of Production and Labour - The Globalization of Reproductive Labour - Review - PART II: GLOBAL CARE CHAINS - Introduction: The Global Care Chain Concept - Locating the GCC Concept - Extending the GCC Concept - An Expanded Global Care Chains Analytical Framework - Issues in GCC Analysis - Conclusions - PART III: GLOBAL NURSING CARE CHAINS - Introduction - International Nurse Migration: An Overview - Production of Nurses - Recruiting and Moving Nurses - Governance of Entry to Overseas Nursing - Labour Integration and Management - Distributive Spatialities of GNCs - PART IV: EXPORTING NURSES FROM IRELAND - Introduction - A Brief History of Irish Migration - Irish Nurses and Britain: Colonial and Post-colonial Ties - Irish Nurse Migration to Other Countries - Nurse Recruitment Agencies and Strategies - PART V: IMPORTING NURSES INTOIRELAND - Introduction - The Context of Nurse Immigration: Producing Vacancies - Migration of Nurses into Ireland - Living the Global Nursing Chain - Conclusions - PART VI: GLOBAL RELIGIOUS CARE CHAINS - Introduction - The Development of the Religious Care Economy - Waves and Destinations of Irish Religious Care Migration - Missionaries - Return of the Migrant Church - Review - CONCLUSIONS - References -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-00534-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 05/12/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés