ABSTRACT
This 'global heart transplant' (GHT), that is, the transfer of love and care from one's own child to a child one is paid to care for in a foreign land is the moral focus of this chapter. This chapter argues that the moral sense of unease inherent in Ehrenreich's dubbing of this form of global migration involves a harm most fully captured by an ethics of care, an ethics that emphasizes responsibilities that arise from ones relationship to others. Considering the condition of migrant care workers underscores the responsibility of feminist theory to explore the impact when changing expectations concerning gender and work rub against old expectations that remain in place even as new ones emerge. The right to benefit from and participate in care-giving, especially familial care-giving, has not been stressed along with other capacities, freedoms, and opportunities that make up the human rights paradigm.
