In the Globalizing World, Reproductive Labor is also being globalized. European countries are hiring foreign nannies, caretakers and household workers. There are many reasons why this labor market has appeared and has grown, but the biggest reason is that there is an increased incentive to migrate to find work, if the person cannot find work in their home country; they have to migrate to find work. And it is because of the growing income and wealth disparities between countries that people migrate to find stable work, and then they can send remittances home.
The significant part of this trend is who is migrating and where they are from. The people who are migrating are women, and they are migrating from the Global South and from countries that were once Imperialized or the recipients from Structural Adjustment Policies. But these woman are more than workers, they are family member, mothers and caretakers. And is what Arlie Hoschschild means by Emotional Imperialism, mothers are leaving behind their family and children to take work and take care of someone else family and they only get to talk to their children over the phone, which is being called International Mothering. There is a K-Pop song called …show more content…
Professor Beneria’s argues, that the emotional extraction does exist, but this is on an individual level, that people choose to migrate for their own reasons. Professor Beneria’s approach is for equity and protection, that these women who do migrate to be protected and not exploited and the woman who are living the host or home country. Under the Universal Caregiver Model of Nancy Fraser, which say that unpaid care work is important to functioning society, to keep care work in the household through subsidies and increased support such as working public transportation and increasing the access of paid employment in the formal market for women in their home
The significant part of this trend is who is migrating and where they are from. The people who are migrating are women, and they are migrating from the Global South and from countries that were once Imperialized or the recipients from Structural Adjustment Policies. But these woman are more than workers, they are family member, mothers and caretakers. And is what Arlie Hoschschild means by Emotional Imperialism, mothers are leaving behind their family and children to take work and take care of someone else family and they only get to talk to their children over the phone, which is being called International Mothering. There is a K-Pop song called …show more content…
Professor Beneria’s argues, that the emotional extraction does exist, but this is on an individual level, that people choose to migrate for their own reasons. Professor Beneria’s approach is for equity and protection, that these women who do migrate to be protected and not exploited and the woman who are living the host or home country. Under the Universal Caregiver Model of Nancy Fraser, which say that unpaid care work is important to functioning society, to keep care work in the household through subsidies and increased support such as working public transportation and increasing the access of paid employment in the formal market for women in their home