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Assignment 10

In order to understand the migration between the South and North we have to focus on the concept of “the commons”. Arlie Hochschild, Lise Widding Isaksen, and Sambasivan Uma Devi discuss the concepts affected by migration which are care chains, commons and the problem of capital. In “Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chain, or Commons” the authors mainly talk about the migration of mothers from Southern countries to the United States. The authors discuss the concept of care chain which basically means that the older daughter from a poor family helps to take care of her siblings in order for her mother to work as a nanny caring for the children whose mothers migrated to take care of the children of rich family.  The care chain can have a positive and negative effect on the family, yes the child life is improve because of the remittances send to them but not growing up with a stable, union family can effect the children. The communities that the families belong to are refer to as the common in this article. In the care chain everyone depends on one another for support in order to survive. In order to make enough money to support their family, these mothers migrated to the United States where they made five times more money than what they would of made in their native country. In many cases migrant mothers would leave their children with family members or even their eldest child in order to be able to move. Once they arrived in the United States they found jobs working as nurses, housekeepers, and caregivers. Many people viewed migrant mothers as selfish, materialistic and bad moms because of the long time they spend separated from their children, when in reality the reason they’re separated from their children was in order to help provide for them.  The money these mother sent back to their native countries, allows the opportunity to improve the lives of the the children that were left behind.  The money sent back to these countries in forms of remittances also help to contribute to the nation economic development.