ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the debates surrounding care, social reproduction, and migration by looking at how the concept of global care chains has evolved, particularly in Latin America. The chapter shows that the Latin American experience contributes to the literature on care, social reproduction, and migration in two ways: it problematises the idea of ‘care deficit’ by looking more carefully at gender and family arrangements in the countries of departure of migration, and it opens new paths of inquiry surrounding the relationship between women’s migrant work and colonial legacies around unpaid and paid domestic labour. The chapter discusses some of the debates on the concept of care and its relationship with social reproduction in the migration literature. Then, it presents some of the research done in Latin America on global care chains, social reproduction, and migration and the emergence of new concepts such as the circulation of care, transnational care regimes, the right to care, and transnational social protection as they apply to the study of both North–South as well as South–South migrations.
