Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts

In this paper, Laura Merla and Loretta Baldassar address some of the key critiques that were formulated in this symposium on the ‘care circulation” perspective these two authors offered in their edited volume entitled “Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care”. Here, they focus...

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Main Authors: Laura Merla, Loretta Baldassar
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2016-03-01
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Online Access:https://papers.uab.cat/article/view/2268
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spelling doaj-5ad612e0d239490a8e92d598d82f610b2021-06-09T13:01:52ZcatUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaPapers0210-28622013-90042016-03-01101210.5565/rev/papers.22681886Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughtsLaura Merla0Loretta Baldassar1Cirfase, Université Catholique de LouvainThe University of Western AustraliaIn this paper, Laura Merla and Loretta Baldassar address some of the key critiques that were formulated in this symposium on the ‘care circulation” perspective these two authors offered in their edited volume entitled “Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care”. Here, they focus in particular on three themes: care as social capital, the need to bring back ‘the political’, and the (dis)-embodiment of care practices. They highlight in particular that ‘care chains’ and ‘care circulation’ should not be seen as opposite, but rather as complementary perspectives.https://papers.uab.cat/article/view/2268gendercaresocial capitaltransnational familiessocial reproductionbody
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title Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts
title_short Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts
title_full Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts
title_fullStr Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts
title_full_unstemmed Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts
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description In this paper, Laura Merla and Loretta Baldassar address some of the key critiques that were formulated in this symposium on the ‘care circulation” perspective these two authors offered in their edited volume entitled “Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care”. Here, they focus in particular on three themes: care as social capital, the need to bring back ‘the political’, and the (dis)-embodiment of care practices. They highlight in particular that ‘care chains’ and ‘care circulation’ should not be seen as opposite, but rather as complementary perspectives.
topic gender
care
social capital
transnational families
social reproduction
body
url https://papers.uab.cat/article/view/2268
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