1533 - Care Work/Caring Labor

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

This session focuses on the different dimensions of care work/caring labor within societies. Presenters will explore natures, patterns, domains, and the types of care work/caring labor within and across the global boundaries. The session creates space broad and innovative approaches to the multidimensionality of this topic and will include emerging theories and cutting-edge research. In particular, it will focus on how care work/ caring labor intersect with gender, race, class, nationality, and citizenship status and its ramifications.

Sub Unit

• Care Work/Caring Labor

Session Organizer

• Shobha Hamal Gurung, Southern Utah University

Presider

• Shobha Hamal Gurung, Southern Utah University

Individual Presentations

• A Care Convergence? Quantifying Wage Disparities for Migrant Care Workers Across Three Welfare Regimes - Naomi Lightman, University of Calgary

• Diverse understandings of family framings in paid household and care work - Anna Rosinska, University of Massachusetts Lowell

• Intersectionality, Gendered Immigrant Care Economies, and New Forms of Servitude in Privatized Care - Jennifer Nazareno, Brown University; Cynthia J. Cranford, University of Toronto

• Parenting All Over Again: Intensive Grandmothering and Family Inequality - Jennifer Utrata, University of Puget Sound