Decent Care for Migrant Households

Policy Alternatives to Sri Lanka’s Family Background Report

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12426593
AutoresMatt Withers (0000-0001-9132-9714, Macquarie University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen26
Número3
Páginas325-347
Fecha de publicación2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sp/jxz024
OpenAlexW2952458212
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas24

Domestic worker migration can profoundly reconfigure unpaid care arrangements within migrant households, often exacerbating gendered inequalities in providing and receiving care. While the International Labor Organization has led rights advocacy around migrant domestic work, there remains a dearth of attention to the relationship between feminized migration and unpaid care. In Sri Lanka, this policy space has been occupied by the Family Background Report: a series of regulations that reinforce maternal caregiving by restricting the migration of women with young children. An alternative “decent care” approach, involving investment in local care infrastructure, could yield multiple benefits while promoting a gender-inclusive decent work agenda

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