SOC352H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Structural Adjustment, Family Constellations, Labor Rights
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Ignores existing socioeconomic structures and power relations. Notion that there should be less government involvement and more individual responsibility for people. Recent advancements in technology (e. g. cheaper overseas flights, long-distance communication) have made transnational ties both easier to maintain over the long term and have increased their visibility and media presence. Transnational mother; mother working in one place and kids in another. Misra, woodring and merz (2006: complicity of states: the role of state policy in reinforcing the international division of caring labor, economic restructuring: increased globalization of care. Economy for example in philippines is very weak, global south countries in these conditions can take money from world bank, but they give money on very strict conditions (structural adjustment policy). So, they will loan money on neo liberal ideals. Philippines doesn"t have a lot of natural resources so they have decided to export peoples labor.
