Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers

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Explorations in Global Care Chains

ISBN: 0230005349
ISBN 13: 9780230005341
Autor: Yeates, N
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xv, 258 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Topical: Migrant care workers a key global phenomenon Inter-disciplinary: Global(ization) Studies, Social Policy, Gender/Women’s Studies, Migration Studies, Labour Studies, Religious Studies, Health and Social Care Studies Originality: Selection of three contrasting sets of care workers not usually covered in the literature Includes extensive unpublished research and previously unavailable statistical data on migrant care workers Covers range of countries in Europe, Asia and Africa and the Americas

Artikelnummer: 9049483 Kategorie:

Beschreibung

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.

Autorenporträt

NICOLA YEATES is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University, UK. She has published extensively around issues of globalization, social policy and migration. Her recent books include Globalisation and Social Policy, Understanding Global Social Policy and Social Justice: Welfare, Crime and Society. She is co-Editor of Global Social Policy: Journal of Public Policy and Social Development, a member of the editorial team of Global Applied Sociology and a member of the international advisory board of Translocations: the Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review (www.imrstr.dcu.ie).

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