Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

PART I: Caring Around the Pacific Rim 1. Global Epicenters of Care Migration 2. Intersections of Migrant Care Work: An Overview PART II: Everyday Realities and Cultures of Care 3. Immigrant Women and Home-based Care in Oakland, California's Chinatown 4. Home Care for Elders in China's Rural-Urban Dualism: Care Workers' Fractured Experiences 5. How Mexican Immigrant Mothers Experience Care and the Ideals of Motherhood PART III: All (Global) Politics are Local 6. Responses to Abuse against Migrant Domestic Workers: A Multi-Scalar Comparison of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai 7. Out of Kilter: Changing Care, Migration and Employment Regimes in Australia 8. Closing the Open Door? Canada's Changing Policy for Migrant Caregivers 9. Explaining Exceptionality: Care and Migration Policies in Japan and South Korea PART IV: From the Global to the Local, and Back Again 10. The Grassroots-Global Dialectic: International Policy as an Anchor for Domestic Worker Organizing 11. The Intimate Knows No Boundaries: Global Circuits of Domestic Worker Organizing 12. Out of Focus: Migrant Women Caregivers as Seen by the ILO and the OECD PART V: Going Global? Afterword: Care Going Global?