Collective Review on “Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction” and “Care in Context – Transnational Gender Perspectives”

• Pages: 432-435
• Published date: 21 May 2018
• Date: 21 May 2018
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-10-2017-0224
• Author: Lara Jüssen
• Subject Matter: HR & organizational behaviour,Employment law,Diversity, equality, inclusion

Anderson and Shutes work out several dimensions of inequalities within the framework of

intersectionality, which make it possible to articulate inequality between the nation states

of the global North and South.

Reading one of the books helps you learn about the other. After reading the work of

Anderson and Shutes, you may get a more critical view on welfare governance in the global

North and one might ask who (what persons and countries) pays the cost of so-called

welfare governance? Would not it be worth thinking about the global dimensions of welfare

and questioning whether existing theories and definitions of welfare de-thematize such

global dimensions? Could we connect ideas of global justice with ideas of global welfare?

Both books inspire discussions about the connection between care, welfare, and society,

insofar as both question the way welfare and care are organized in contemporary capitalistic

societies. Therefore, I would recommend the books not only for readers who are interested in

social policy, care, and migration, but also for those who are interested in current debates on

conditions and endangerments of modern societies. Finally, both books show that dealing

with questions of welfare and care challenge society and sociology as a whole, as care and

welfare are “basic condition[s] of modern societies”(Aulenbacher et al., 2014, p. 7). Debating

about care and welfare means debating and struggling with possible contemporary and

future visions of societies.

Kristina Binner

Department for the Theory of Society and Social Analysis,

Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Linz, Austria

Reference

Aulenbacher, B., Riegraf, B. and Theobald, H. (2014), Sorge: Arbeit, Verhältnisse, Regimes. Care: Work,

Relations, Regimes, Sonderband 20, Soziale Welt, Baden-Baden, Nomos.

Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction

Edited by Kofman Elionor and Raghuram Parvati

Palgrave Macmillan

Hampshire, NY

2015

Care in Context –Transnational Gender Perspectives

Edited by ReddyVasu, Meyer Stephan, Shefer Tamara and Meyiwa Thenjiwe

Human Sciences Research Council

Cape Town

2015

Review DOI 10.1108/EDI-10-2017-0224

Collective Review on “Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction”

and “Care in Context –Transnational Gender Perspectives”

Women and care work have always been connected and since the fortification of the more

recent women’s movements of the 1970s, have become the analytic interest of academics of

the social sciences. Today, gender, as it is debated in the global North sometimes threatens

to tip over the top, or, to lose its topic of debate with regard to women empowerment. A class

perspective evidences that not all women are in need of empowerment or support in the

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