Feminist Ethics and Social Policy (Electronic book text)

As national borders become more permeable, women are increasinglytravelling from poor to rich countries to take up jobs as care workers.The struggle to maintain a healthy work/care balance in Western nationsis creating a care deficit in the developing world. This volume linksethics to the social politics of care by examining the implications ofthe feminization of migrant labour and the shortcomings of socialpolicy. From Canada to Sweden and from Korea to Japan, renowned andemerging scholars reveal that a truly feminist ethics of care must begrounded in the concrete lives of real people working in transnationalwebs of social relations.