Transnational Management and Globalised Workers

2 Perspectives on the Transnationalisation of Care and the Nurse Labour Market

The body of research concerning the care labour market ranges from the traditional macro understanding of flows and patterns generated from statistical information by nation-states (e.g. OECD and WHO) as well as bringing gender into the analysis of labour migration patterns (ILO, UN, and IOM). At a micro/familial level, analysis of global dynamics in the provision of care and the economic restructuring of the domestic sphere is conceptualised through Hochschild’s concept of ‘global care chains’ (Hochschild, 2000).¹ In her analysis, the concept of ‘global care chains’ reveals a reconfiguring of care roles and links migrant carers (read: women) into social networks of ...