Abstract

FERRO, Silvia Lilian. Care's global crises, transnational migrations and remittances: Impacts in and from Latin America. CIDADES [online]. 2020, n.40, pp.88-102. ISSN 2182-3030.  https://doi.org/10.15847/cct.jun2020.040.doss-edit06.

First of all, this article is set out to demonstrate the relationships that specific demographic and social conditions have with the global reorganization and regional reorientation of migratory flows of care, both in countries with a traditional profile of demand for paid care work and in other, countries, known for being on the supply side. Secondly, it proposes a characterization of the participation of South American countries, since the last quarter of the 20th century to the present, in the dynamics of global care chains. Finally, before a new stage of regressive economic contraction that restarted in 2015 in the region, in conjunction with the closing of borders of the traditional countries that receive this specific type of feminized care migration, it analyses the challenges that these conjunctures entail in the present and immediate future in countries of the southern Latin American cone. The methodology of this work is based on the analysis and interpretation of databases and statistical information published by official sources, both from international organizations and from national public statistical systems in epistemological dialogue with theoretical contributions from the international reference literature on the subject.

Keywords : care; transnational migrations; remittances; South America; contemporary economic history.

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