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Remittance networks and stratified reproduction
Remittance networks and stratified reproduction
Ryan Schram
Mills 169 (A26)
ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au
September 6, 2017
Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/1002/6.1
Reading
Colen, Shellee. 1995. “‘Like a Mother to Them’: Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York.” In Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction, edited by Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, 78–102. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.
Sending so much more than money
Just like the production of commodities for Western markets is now highly globalized, so too is the commodification of care also globalized.
There are commodity chains of reproductive labor, or “global care chains” (*awww*) (Hochschild 2000).
Commodity chains are assembled by capitalist firms using container ships. How are care chains created?