As national borders become more permeable, women are increasingly
travelling from poor to rich countries to take up jobs as care workers.
The struggle to maintain a healthy work/care balance in Western nations
is creating a care deficit in the developing world. This volume links
ethics to the social politics of care by examining the implications of
the feminization of migrant labour and the shortcomings of social
policy. From Canada to Sweden and from Korea to Japan, renowned and
emerging scholars reveal that a truly feminist ethics of care must be
grounded in the concrete lives of real people working in transnational
webs of social relations.