The Care Agenda in Latin America

Towards a New Understanding of Well-being

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ID3884516
AuthorsBelén Villegas Plá (0000-0001-9127-4901, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume56
Issue3
Pages426-456
Publication date2025-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment and Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/dech.70001
OpenAlexW4411209473
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited39

Since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-22, care policies have gained increasing relevance worldwide, particularly in Latin America. Currently, several countries in this region are developing care policies based on feminist principles that position care as a central component in the reproduction of societies. This perspective recognizes care as a social need that must be addressed and as a crucial tool for promoting fairer and more equitable gender relations. Through an extensive documentary analysis that includes government documents, reports from international organizations, laws, decrees and regulations related to care in eight Latin American countries, this article outlines the care agenda in the region from 2020 to 2024. The article examines how this agenda challenges the notion of well-being in Latin American societies and the traditional social protection frameworks that characterize this region

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Latin Americans · Pandemic · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Position (finance) · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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