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Karla Flores, Assig.10

In Global Care Crisis, the authors discuss the reasons and effects of the south-north migration of people. Usually, women are the ones who migrate from their home countries in the south to countries like the United States in the north. These women come from countries like the Philippines, where they leave their own families behind. Even though they go to other countries to work for money to support their families, their families are forced to change along with it too. Care chains are made up of these mothers that come to northern countries to get jobs as nurses, housekeepers, and other care-giving positions that leave their families behind which are usually younger kids who still depend on the care of their mothers. But now that they are left behind without their mothers, the oldest girl of the group is usually forced to take care of the youngest ones, or even other older people in the family. creating this chain where the mothers go away to take care of somebody else fir money, meanwhile their kids are left back at their home countries getting taken care of by somebody else for free. But we also see how with capitalism, kids are the main ones that get affected by the absence of their mothers which just has an emotional effect on the kids. It would not be beneficial for capitalism if mothers were able to bring their kids along with them to these new countries while they work. As long as the families are kept apart, the mothers will keep being obligated to leave their countries to work somewhere else, which leads to more profits to those northern countries. As long as they keep things this way, the children will keep having emotional problems and the  mothers will be producing part for their kids and for these new countries.