Defamilialisation of whom? Re-thinking defamilialisation in the light of global care chains and the transnational circulation of care.

Degavre, Florence;Merla, Laura
(2016) Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Global Perspectives through the Life Course — ISBN: [978-1-137-52099-9], p. 287-311, published

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In social policy theorisation, defamilialisation has been primarily conceived to account for women’s access to financial autonomy and to care services or transfers in Welfare State regimes. The purpose of this chapter is to raise two blind spots of the concept that need to be addressed in future research. Both relate to the twice paradoxical experience of female migrant workers engaged in transnational flows of care that include caregiving both in the North and in the South. First, while defamilialisation in the North partly relies on important flows of migrant care workers, defamilialisation is not fully accessible to migrant care workers themselves. And second, defamilialisation, usually defined as a universal women’s issue and conceived within the borders of Nation States, does not sufficiently take into account the specific situation of migrant workers who continue to assume care responsibilities for relatives in the South, whose care needs are shaped within highly familialistic regimes.
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Degavre, F., & Merla, L. (2016). Defamilialisation of whom? Re-thinking defamilialisation in the light of global care chains and the transnational circulation of care. In Kilkey, Majella; Palenga-Möllenbeck, Ewa (ed.), Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Global Perspectives through the Life Course (p. p. 287-311). Palgrave McMillan. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/220444