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Alfie Corteza Assignment #10

Alfie Corteza

Professor Bullock

Assignment #10

In “Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chains, or Commons?” by Arlie Hochschild, Lise Widding Isaksen, and Sambasivan Uma Devi, a commons is a practice originating from the 15th century that allowed villagers to acquire resources from the shared land, a somewhat give and take principle. However, the 21st-century version of the commons is the migration of third world countries making tertiary sector jobs of being nannies, nurses, and other servitude different kind of occupations. Women from third world countries from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Kerala, and Ukraine are deprived of mothers as they migrate to Western European countries and The United States as the pay there are substantially better compared to the educated occupations within their own country. As much as this sounds beneficial on all fronts, the demand is fulfilled, and the supplies being paid well an issue arises with the family left behind. The problem is that the mothers working abroad are there for many months even years to send back money as remittances, at the cost of not seeing their children and family. As a result, the children and also infants in the hands of other family members or even neighbors grow a detachment and resentment to their absent mothers as the children consider them selfish and unkindly.There was evidence shown that the father left behind would not take proper care of the child, and would result with other female relatives to take care of them. If the father were to go, and the mother to stay behind the mother would have to take both parental roles as mother and father. It also affects the child’s education as it was revealed that the children missing one or both of their children performed worse than their counterparts whose parents are consistently present in their lives. These children also hold a resentment as they question the absent parent’s love for them. Hothschild, Isaksen, and Devi piece “Global Care Crisis” points out the issues of expatriate workers on their own lives, and those that they leave behind in their mother country.