The article explores social reproduction in the globalised world while paying special attention to the changes it has been undergoing under the influence of the transnational migration of women from South to North, the rise in women's employment and neo-liberal policies in both developed and developing countries. It highlights the ever more noticeable phenomenon of the transnationalisation, privatisation and commodification of social reproduction, concentrating in particular on global care chains seen as new transnational spaces of care that point to the mutual dependence of households in different parts of the world. It draws attention to its manifold, even contradictory implications for households across the world and proposes possible strategies for resolving the consequences of the globalisation of reproductive work.
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