Who Cares? Gender, Reproduction, and Care Chains of Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8091654 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Pearson (0000-0002-5741-5050, University of Leeds, corresponding author), Kyoko Kusakabe (0000-0001-8132-7977, Asian Institute of Technology) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 149-175 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-5701 • E-ISSN: 1466-4372 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13545701.2012.691206 |
| OpenAlex | W2071323709 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 25 |
This study analyzes the challenges facing Burmese women factory workers in Thailand who seek to secure the daily reproduction of their labor power as well as the generational reproduction of their children. It illustrates how the reproduction of workers' labor is crucial for the social reproduction of a global economy in which migration is increasingly central to the changing contours of economic development and accumulation. Based on twenty-four months of research, which included life history interviews and survey responses obtained at three sites of factory production in Thailand, the study charts the complexities of Burmese migrant workers' transborder care strategies, as they manage their responsibilities to their children and natal families. Moreover, in analyzing the care burdens of migrant women employed in non-care sectors, this contribution expands the global care chain framework and adds to the understanding of the intersection of productive and reproductive work in contemporary globalization
Biology · Burmese · Business · Care work · Economic growth · Economics · Factory (object-oriented programming · Globalization · Political science · Reproduction · Social reproduction · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Work (physics · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Ecology
Border-crossing and the narrative of the minor
Handbook on Migration and the Family
Women migrants in the global economy
Understanding Queer Oppression and Resistance in the Global Economy
Introduction
Gender and International Migration
Infrastructures of Social Reproduction
Mothering from the Margins
Territorial (In) Coherence
Time–space control
Migration and the invisible economies of care
The Feminization of Migration and Mental Health of Older Parents Left Behind
Migration Patterns in East and Southeast Asia
Skilled Migrants and Their Encounters with Care and Employment Regimes
Gender, migration and care deficits
Negotiating social location as a workplace strategy
"Peasant traders, migrant workers and "supermarkets
Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context
Migrant-worker remittances and Burma
South-South Migration
Thailand’s Hidden Workforce
Gender and the global economic crisis in developing countries
The crisis of care, international migration, and public policy
Opting out?” The effect of children on women's employment in the United States
Gender and Remittances
Political Economy of Cross-Border Marriage
Rethinking Care Through Social Reproduction
Citizenship, Community Participation and Social Change
Dangerous Equations? How Female-headed Households Became the Poorest of the Poor
Introduction
Transborder Migration, Social Reproduction and Economic Development
Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction
Critical times
Nimble Fingers Make Cheap Workers
Renegotiating the Reproductive Bargain
New Routes to Social Cohesion? Citizenship and the Social Investment State
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |