Global Care Chains and Emotional Surplus Value

Professional problems: The burden of producing the “global” Filipino nurse

“…If professions establish authority by making claims to knowledge, it is important to understand how such "expertise" is taught and reproduced. In this sense, the nation-bound disposition of the professions literature limits our understanding of the possible inequalities surrounding nurse education, given that a growing proportion of nurses in developed nations obtained training in poorer countries like India and the 3 The GNCC stems from the more general concept of the global care chain, where women's entry into the workforce and diminishing government support have led wealthy nations to outsource care responsibilities to migrant workers (Hochschild, 2000;Parrenas, 2002). However, one major difference is that original proponents of the global care chain based their framework on the experiences of domestic workers, where the capacity to provide "care" is not defined through formal training.…”

Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction

“…Both concepts have been deployed in understanding the global transfer of reproductive labour. In particular, global care chains (Hochschild 2000) highlighting the two ends -transnationalisation of the household and the redistribution of care within the household -have been widely used around the world to understand gendered migration. However we argue that care, though combining the material and the emotional aspects of reproductive labour, is only one element of the diverse resources required for the maintenance of individuals and their families.…”

“…In the subsequent decade, the 'potent spatiality' accompanying the reorganisation of reproduction (Mitchell et al 2003) caught the academic imagination, so that the analytical framework for understanding reproductive work has itself been globalised (Hochschild 2000;Mills 2003;Peterson 2003;Sassen 2000). Much of this attention has focused on migrants who enter the lesser skilled sectors of the labour market to perform various forms of reproductive labour: domestic and care work, and sex work (Agustin 2005;Anderson 2000;Lutz 2011;Parreñas 2001).…”

“…Globalisation has led to the marketisation and the privatisation of various services, including care, which is now brought into global care chains (Yeates 2004). This international transfer of reproductive work, especially to Europe and North America, is one of the most influential theoretical lenses in the analysis of care (Hochschild 2000;Parreñas 2001;Widding Isaksen 2010).…”

Gendered mobilities and social change—An introduction to the Special Issue on Gender, Mobility and Social Change

“…Weaving in an empirical case study of a migrant trajectory, Vaittinen demonstrates that the transformative power of the migrant trajectory 'is not imbued in an individual migrants' subjectivity but in the capacity of the migrant body to tie together different networks of relatedness when navigating through the global space'. Speranta Dumitru takes up the theoretical engagement in the global care debate with a critique of Arlie Hochschild's (2000) conceptualisation of global care chains. Chains are formed when individuals and groups move from third to first world to provide care work, leaving behind a care deficit.…”