Special issue call for papers migration and care work comparative approach to policies and practices in asia

Special Issue Call for Papers - Migration and Care Work:
Comparative Approach to Policies and Practices in Asia
Migration and Care Work: Comparative Approach to Policies and Practices in Asia

Responding to the low fertility rate and population ageing, a number of Asian countries have been introducing migrants to undertake care work
including both child care and elderly care. Care work which used to be shouldered by women at home as an unpaid work is quickly transforming itself
not only to be outsourced to the market but becoming a frontline in the uneven process of globalization. While the opening up of care labour market
allowed the local women to relegate the care burden to migrants without sacrificing their career or family life the scholars have been revealing what the
globalization of care work entails. Much has been written about the migrant domestic workers regarding their experiences in the host society including
displacement, discipline, and power struggles within the sphere of intimacy.
In Asia, both migrant sending and receiving countries exist but the intra-regional mobility within the region neither guarantee the human rights and
well-being of the migrant workers nor bring a common ground for mutual understanding. Rather we see the power relations that operate both at the
macro and micro levels that differentiate and stratify the migrants in the host society as ‘others’. However, a closer examination and comparison within
Asia reveals a differentiated construction of a generic term ‘migrant care workers’ as both care work and migrants are shaped by the policies and
institutional framework of the nation state.
This Special Issue intends to investigate how the global care chain manifests in different contexts and embedded in different regimes within Asia. It
attempts to analytically distinguish between domestic work and care work even though they may converge within the actual settings and situate them
within the larger social welfare regimes and institutions. The papers revisit the nature of care regimes in East Asia in relation to the migration regimes
in order to examine the intersection between the welfare of the care recipients and social rights of the migrants in multiple ways. It also brings together
the perspectives from both sending and receiving countries and shed light on the policies and practices on migrant care workers who are becoming an
integral part of the care workforce in Asia.

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Important dates:
Deadline for submission of abstract: 1 October 2016
Review of abstracts by the editors: 15 October 2016

Submission of the final paper: 1 April 2017
Review Process: 30 April 2017
Submission of the revised paper from the authors: 1 June 2017
Submission of full papers to the publisher: 1 July 2017 – targeting October 2017 issue

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Special Issue Guest Editor: Reiko Ogawa, Kyushu University, Japan ()
Special Issue Guest Editor: Lillian Lih Rong Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan ()

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