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Assignment 10

The authors in, “Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chains, or Commons?”, view how the concept of “the commons” impacts on the role of migration from the south to the north. This would lead to the influence of capital along with the connection within the child’s “relational world”.

There are multiple factors that influence people to migrate to stronger economic countries. However, there seems to more female migrants versus male ones (405-406). Also they tend to stay in the country they migrate to longer and this could be the result of simply providing financial support for their family. However, this can lead to problems. When female migrants take on the role of financial support they would fall into the two categories. They are either a family woman or economic woman (406). However, it is never both. This means that these female migrants are either mothers or helping themselves, which is often the case. They would resort to “the commons” in order to help their family because it is the easiest access to work with higher pay that they would not receive in their home country. “The commons” is a place where actually everyone relies on and holds a value because without it society would fall apart.

There are always consequences to every action made. When the women that are also mothers that migrant they risking losing the communication with their children. Children that fall into this scenario understand the circumstances. However, they feel a sense of loneliness along with the discouragement of not wanting to do anything better for themselves. This results in them not wanting to go to college even though is part of the reason why the female migrants sacrificed to contribute a brighter future their family. Sometimes, the more connected the parents are in their children’s lives the better they would perform.