Abstract
Taking off from Helga Hernes’s 1987 concept of “reproduction going public,” Razavi asserts that today, care is “going global.” She points to historical precedents, noting that the “defamilialization” of care is and has been uneven and varies widely across different societies. She emphasizes the need to examine the factors driving the supply of as well as the demand for care workers and argues that the gender as well as the class and ethnicity of care workers lead to the devaluation of their work, stipulating, however, that institutional and legal contexts “still matter.” Finally, Razavi examines the relationship between care migration and the migration-development nexus, calling for a new model of development that seeks to redress the inequalities within and between nations and enable all women and men to enjoy the right to family life and the right to an adequate standard of living, rather than having to choose between them.
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Razavi, S. (2017). Care Going Global? Afterword. In: Michel, S., Peng, I. (eds) Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55086-2_13
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