Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers: Explorations in Global Care Chains

by Nicola Yeates

Workers providing social and health care services lie at the heart of migration patterns underpinning current gobalization processes. Using a 'global care chains' perspective the author describes and analyses the experiences of migrant care workers, maps the extent, forms and governance of care services internationalisation and considers the policy implications in developed and developing countries. This multi-disciplinary analysis draws on original...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230005349
• ISBN13: 9780230005341
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"