As national borders become more permeable, women are increasingly on the move, travelling from poor to rich countries to take up jobs as care workers. The struggle to maintain a healthy work/care balance in Western countries is creating a care deficit in the developing world. Feminist Ethics and Social Policy links ethics to the social politics of care by revealing the implications of the feminization of migrant labour and the shortcomings of social policy at the national level. Drawing on innovative theories of gender and race, global justice and neocolonialism, and care and masculinity, renowned and emerging scholars examine recent policy developments and debates in Canada, Sweden, Korea, and Japan and their effects on the lives of female care workers. They show that a truly feminist ethics of care must be grounded in the concrete activities of real people working in transnational webs of social relations.

Abbreviations Introduction Part1: The Transnational Movement of Care 1. Towards a Transnational Analysis of the Political Economy of care 2. Migration and Globalized Care Work: The case of internationally educated nurses in Canada 3. The Global migration of care labour: Filipino Workers in Japan Par2: Transnational Influence of Care Discourses 4. Transnationalizing (Child) Care Policy: The OECD and the World Bank 5. Social Investment Policy in South Korea 6.Reimagined Intimate Relations: Elder and Child Care in Japan since the 1990s Pat3: The Transnational Ethics of Care 7.Care Ethics and the Transnationalization of Care: Reflections on Auonomy, Hegemonic Masculinities, and Globalization 8. The Dark Side of Care: The Push Factors of Human Trafficking 9.A Feminist Democratic Ethics of Care and Global Care Workers: Citizenship and Responsibility Conclusion: Integrating the Ethics and Social politics of Care Notes References Contributors Index