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Antonella Diaz’s tenth assignment

For us to better understand why there was migration among the South and North, we must focus on the concept of “the commons”. Arlie Hochschild, Lise Widding Isaksen, and Sambasivan Uma Devi deliberate on the philosophies that are affected by migration are care chains, commons and the problem of capital. In “Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chain, or Commons”, the authors mainly converse about the migration that mothers from Southern countries make to the United States. The authors remark on what is the concept of care chain, which is essentially the eldest daughter in the poor family would take care of her siblings in her mother’s place while the mother works as a nanny caring for the children whose mothers migrated to take care of the children of rich family.  The care chain can cause both positive and negative effect on the family. Certainly, the child life has been improved due to the payments send to them, but, they are missing a key part of their development where they grow with a stable, union family. The communities where the families live in are referred to as the common in this article. In the care chain, everyone is dependent on each other for support and survival. To make enough money to support their family, these mothers migrated to the United States. Theses mothers would earn about five times more money than what they would have made in their native country. In many of these circumstances, the migrant mothers would choose to leave their children with family members or even their eldest child for them to be able to go to the United States. Once they arrived in the United States, they would find jobs as either nurses, housekeepers, and caregivers. Many people regard migrant mothers to be selfish, materialistic and bad moms for the reason that they choose to be separated from their children. Even though when the reason they’re separated from their children was to help provide for them.  The money these mothers sent back to their native countries, permits the chance to improve the lives of the children that were left behind.  The money sent back to these countries in forms of payments also help to contribute to the nation economic development.