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Assignment 10

In the article, “Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chains, or Commons?” Arlie Hochschild, Lise Widding Isaksen, and Sambasvian Uma Devi had argued that the main focus on the concept of the commons to understand the South and North migration. This article discussed how mothers from southern countries have to leave their family and children and travel to northern countries to care and take care of families that is not their own. When they travel to these northern countries, they get jobs such as nannies, caregivers, etc. These writers of this article talks about the commons. The commons is the community of families within the care chain. There is many different arguments about the feelings of this article. Many people would assume that these mothers are bad mothers because they are leaving their families in order to go take care of another family. The biological kids of the mothers are left with other relatives to take care of them. There are both advantages and disadvantages for these women to become migrants and travel the world taking care of other people. Most of the time, the money they make they send it back home to there family. Everything one way or another has to come down to the economical system. The reason these women would travel to other countries and leave their families is so they can earn money. Usually most of the time these women have migrated from third world countries that are very poor and will go to a country that is extremely rich like the United States.  These woman had to have a balance between their work life and their personal life.