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The article “Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chains, or Commons?” Arlie Hochschild, Lise Widding Isaksen, and Sambasivan Uma Devi discusses the global economical systems that exist in the world and how it affects different counties. Economics play a huge role in people’s lives because the economical instability in certain countries forces people to migrate.

Global migration was going for almost three hundred years. People leave their homelands in a search of a better place and a better pay. This is a reasoning behind migrations. People are always looking for a comfort place to live. However, this articles explores a more darker side of the migration because it goes dipper into people’s lives as a migrant individuals. Mainly this article focuses on women and sacrifices they had to make in order to achieve what the were looking for. As authors stated women had to leave their homes, relatives and children, so they could leave to another country and work there. Daughters left hometowns and travelled to north in a search of a better pay. Most available jobs were in the home care. So, basically women could find jobs only as caretakers or nanny’s. At this point another discussion starts by the authors because women were looking after children of their employers and not their own. Unfortunately, children, who were left in third world countries, were left without mothers and sometimes children would even forget their mothers. Thus, women, who left, had to make a lot of sacrifices in order to provide for their families. We can also make a parallel with a time of slavery, when slave women had to take care of children of their masters.

In case of “the commons” the migration of women disrupts this whole concept. According to the authors “the commons” concept is based on a community that works on sharing and helping each other. However, this concept does not work if one crucial detail is missing. That detail is a model of mother and motherhood. Thus, everything comes down to the economical system of the world. If every third world country would be as developed as a first world country, in economical and financial way, then the need for migration would disappear. People wouldn’t have a need to migrate in a search of a better pay because they would be satisfied with what the get in their homelands.