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Lise Widding Isaksen, Sambasivan Uma Devi, and Arlie Russell Hochschild address several concepts associated with the migration of women from third world countries to more profitable countries within Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chain, or Commons?. 

To begin explaining the concept known as “the commons” we must understand why its practice is necessary. Due to economic, political, and social factors prevalent in their countries of origin, many mothers relocated in order to create a better standard of living for themselves and their families. These women would often work as caretakers for other families, while leaving their elder children or superiors to care for their younger youths. These younger women would then send money to families back home. The money they earn is received from the services they provide in these more developed and economically stable countries. They take the paid responsibilities more financially stable people are less likely inclined to take on. Such as babysitting and caring for a child of the family or cleaning the apartment or house for that family, cooking for that family. So the commons which is the cycle of care is being transferred in many two ways. Where the children that are left behind by the mothers who go to seek new lives in the more developed countries transfer their care and concern to the kids of the people that pay them. In return the children left behind get financial assistance they would not have received from their mothers if they were employed in their second or third world country where jobs were not ample. So more or less the commons is like a community in a way or it is also like an exchange of services. Their is also a stereo type that carried these mothers but it is irrelevant just as the subject of feminism is to immigration.