ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how national and global care chains form, explores how transnational families respond to the displacement of care needs, and lays out a research and policy agenda to address the tilt of caring resources from the Global South to the Global North. The conceptualization of a global care chain is a powerful one as it allows us to understand how migration and labor recruitment are the fulcrum of a strategy to address care needs in host countries. As women from the Global South are recruited to address the care needs in the Global North, an international network of caregiver families and care-recipient families is established. The effects of care deficits in home countries do not only affect those left behind but are also felt by the transnational parents in host countries. Many migrant parents who have to endure separation from their own children struggle to engage in transnational parenting.
