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Assignment 10

In the reading, “Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chains, or Commons?”, the authors goes on to discuss about the increase migration of female workers to other countries in search of work. Parrenas gives the example of a Filipina mother whom left her home country in search of work to support her children. Often times when these workers leave their counties to find work, they’re hired as nannies or caretakers of other people’s children. The author in a way wants us to think of the idea that one leaves their child and home behind to take care of another person’s child in order to support their own child. From the view of many, people naturally assume that these mothers are “bad mothers” or irresponsible; even the kids aren’t very pleased with the absence of their mom during their childhood. Many don’t understand the sacrifice these mothers have made all for the purpose of giving their child a better opportunity. These mothers have to enter a new country working hard to take care of other people’s children instead of their own, not knowing anything with the mindset that in the end her kid will get a better opportunity. The kids more often than not don’t see it as the mothers do, they disregard the remittance and/or gifts the mothers sent to them and over time start to resent them. The kids just want to be with their moms like the other kids around them, growing up they’re unable to see their moms or have a strong parental figure they can go to for support. The authors also bring economy into this talking about the shortage of workers in first world countries or more wealthy ones needing to ship caretakers from less developed countries. In all of this, its really the kids that suffer, they effect deeply psychology that may impact over the years.