ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to move beyond the somewhat polarized and contradictory visions embodied in the current discourses on global care chains. The author's larger objective is to argue that there should be public dialogue in countries that are part of the global care chain about the kind of life that is worth living and which is deserving of care. Migration is an increasingly important axis in enabling the creation of such a pool and in determining the conditions under which people can make care arrangements. Transnational migration from the global South to the North creates new forms of and channels for exclusion and inequality. The use of the concept of global care chains is deliberate, with the analytical, ethical and political aim of rendering visible not just care, but also its unfair organization and the complications in conceptualizing it. Policies are being introduced that entail sharp cuts in public expenditure on care services.
