ABSTRACT
Feminist scholars have argued that gender inequalities are constitutive of contemporary patterns of intensified globalization, and that gender differences in migration flows often reflect the way in which gender divisions of labor are incorporated into uneven economic development processes. The connection between migrant care work, globalization, and the privatization of social reproduction has been variously designated the new domestic world order, the new international division of reproductive labor, or the transnational economy of domestic labor. On the demand side, the feminization of migration is fuelled by the increase in women's labor force participation, falling fertility rates, increasing life expectancy, changes in family structure, shortage of public care, and the increasing marketization of care in the North. The term global care chain' was used by Arlie Hochschild to refer to a series of personal links between people across the globe based on the paid and unpaid work of caring.
