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Assignment 10

The concept of the “ Commons” refers the give and take between community members. This concept is linked to “Global Care Chains”. According to Hochschild, these chains represent links between people across the world. Moreover, what is being discussed is how the migration of women has affected them and the children they leave behind. Migrate women leave their children in the care of family members, to go to another country to make money. According to Yeates, the foundation to the care chains is known as “the socio-emotional commons”. This refers to a way people pay back a favor not with money but by bartering favors and it also refers to the social resources that community members have in common.

According to the article, women are forced to migrate to other countries for reasons such as: collapse of their countries economies and political reasons. The concept of “commons” and “capital” is important to understand because women migrates are forced to leave their children behind and leave them in the care of other family members. This has caused what Devi has referred to as “empathetic rupture”. The children still miss their mothers. The caregivers cannot replace her. According to Devi, this causes the children of migrates to distrust, because their mothers have broken their emotional bond to their children by leaving them behind. Moreover, they never feels like part of the family members family. They may feel like a guest or like they are a burden to the caregiver.

“Social Capital “refers to the way that the women pay back their family members for taking care of their children. The act of caring for the child is seen as an enormous favor. In exchange, the woman may send gifts to her child and to the family member. She may also pay for the family members health care. In any event, the migration of women has caused shifts in the families they leave behind. The article cites how relationships are broken and that the mother is no longer the central figure in her child’s life.