ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the migration and social reproduction by also including South-South migration, the experiences of men as well as sectors of work other than care work. The literature on care and social reproduction is heavily skewed towards the experiences of women migrants in South-North migrations, particularly those of domestic workers migrating from poorer countries in the Global South to richer countries of the Global North. Within a global setting, commentators have used care to analyse the inequalities embedded in the global circulation of domestic workers and carers. The chapter focuses on the work on the care chains but focus more on exploring what migrants understand for care and how this influences their decisions to migrate, stay abroad, and return. It looks at how care influences migration, for both men and women and discusses the challenges of combining migration with family life, including transnational parenting.
