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Assignment 10: Miguel Montana

One of the main focuses is of the “Commons” and how they affect migrational patterns, specifically amongst women. The reason it primarily affects women is that they are incentivized to move because of the fact that the responsibility of caring for children falls on their shoulders. Naturally, the migrational pattern is from poor to stable; and it’s also noted that they stay in these countries for longer. Though this does financially benefit the family that the woman is working to take care of, there are natural consequences to this nomadic parenting lifestyle that these women are forced to take up. One of the main issues being that their is a lack of nuclear parentalship happening that grossly affects the children at play here. Since the mother isn’t there to probably attach the children to her, the children lose a lot of emotional growth because of this. And this is an issue, as it creates a varied problem amongst the younger generation as they grow older. Though they understand why their mother had to leave to another country for work, this doesn’t discount the fact that their emotional needs either weren’t met or they had to be met by someone else. This is detrimental to effectively establishing a proper and nurturing relationship with the mother and her child. It also leads to a lack of proper decision making amongst the children and sometimes nullifies a lot of the sacrifice the mother made as they lose encouragement to reaching into higher education because of this lack of emotional nurturing that they would have had if their mothers didn’t leave for more financially prosperous countries as opposed to staying home and caring for their children. Ultimately, though there is a economic incentive to move the consequences intimately affect the mothers who partake in this trend.