期刊
GLOBAL NETWORKS-A JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL AFFAIRS
卷 21, 期 2, 页码 434-454出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12281
关键词
CARE CHAINS; CARE WORKERS; DOMESTIC WORKERS; ELDERLY CARE; GLOBAL SOUTH; GLOBALIZATION; MIGRATION; PRIVATE AGENCIES; SINGAPORE; STATE INSTITUTIONS
资金
- College of Alice and Peter Tan (NUS) Seed Grant
- UK Aid from the UK government through the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium
The research discusses the globalization of care work and the connection between global care labor movement and local frameworks of care access and delivery, focusing on how the care-migration nexus produces 'ideal' care workers. Through a case study of elderly care in Singapore, it is found that state and private institutions adopt contradictory strategies when filling local labor needs by lowering barriers for citizens while increasing pre-training demands for migrant domestic workers.
Research on the globalization of care work often faces the persistent challenge of building meaningful connections between the movement of care labour at a global scale and place-based frameworks of care access and delivery. In addressing this gap in this article, we propose to take a closer look at how the care-migration nexus produces 'ideal' care workers through a skills regime. Based on the case of elderly care in Singapore, in this article, we demonstrate how state institutions and private agencies attempts to fill local labour needs by producing care workers among both Singapore citizens and migrant women. This leads to contradictory strategies associated with lowering barriers for citizens to enter the elderly care industry, while raising standards and increasing pre-training demands for migrant domestic workers to perform more 'professional' care work within the household. We conclude with a discussion of how these strategies can be understood as a process of 'filtering'.
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