Decent Care for Migrant Households
Policy Alternatives to Sri Lanka’s Family Background Report
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12426593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Withers (0000-0001-9132-9714, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 325-347 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sp/jxz024 |
| OpenAlex | W2952458212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 24 |
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
Business · Care work · Child care · Demographic economics · Domestic work · Economic growth · Economics · Inequality · Investment (military · Political science · Politics · Socioeconomics · Sri lanka · Unpaid work · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Nursing
Emigration States
Moralized Mobilities. A Multi-scalar Analysis of the Role of Religion in Migrant Care Work
Advancing Gender Equality Through Decent Work
Regulation through responsibilisation
Redressing harms to migrant domestic workers
The migration ban policy cycle
Migration and development, without care? Locating transnational care practices in the migration‐development debate
Sometimes, men cannot do what women can
Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone
The prospects for caring
Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction
Equality through precarious work regulation
Making Sense of ‘Asian’ Families in the Age of Migration
The Care Drain and its Effects on the Families Left Behind
Migration and Care
Depletion
Rethinking Care Through Social Reproduction
Migrant mothers, left-behind fathers
Protecting the Welfare of Children and its Causal Effect on Limiting Mother's Labour Migration
Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered Political Economy
The Changing Role of Women in Sri Lankan Society
Masculinity, Care and Stay-Behind Fathers
Breadwinning Wives and 'Left-Behind' Husbands
Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor
Through a fractured gaze
Care
From Servitude to Service Work
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |