ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the commercialisation of transnational live-in care as a global phenomenon and the existing literature on migrant domestic and care work. It outlines the theoretical framework that underpins this research: migration infrastructure and politics of mobility. Care in the Global North is increasingly being delegated to women migrating from poorer to wealthier countries. Women’s increasing labour market participation in many countries in the Global North, which was not accompanied by an equivalent shift of care responsibilities to men, paved the way for hundreds of thousands of women to work as migrant domestic workers. The global flow of care has been further conceptualised as the care diamond and as care circulation. The focus on mobilities in care work has increasingly gained attention, as shown by the number of studies in home care, some more loosely related to the new mobilities paradigm. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
