Rethinking care through international migration: labour market, State and transnational families in Ecuador
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This article examines the social organization of care among transnational families in Ecuador. It explores to what extent international migration has meant transformations in such care organization and examines three areas: the labour market of care in Ecuador, social policies around care and migrant family arrangements. The text looks at how gender, generation and class are inequality axes that cross these three areas and structure both institutional and family arrangements of care. The analysis is based on the findings of a research conducted in 2009 and 2010 in a peri urban area of the city of Quito.
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