<p>As the boundaries between nations become more permeable, women are<br>increasingly on the move, travelling from poor countries to rich ones<br>to work as nannies, nurses, teachers, maids, and sex workers. The<br>struggle to maintain a healthy balance between work, family, and care<br>in Western nations is creating a care deficit in the developing<br>world.</p><br><br><p> </p><br><br><p><em>Feminist Ethics and Social Policy</em> links ethics to the<br>social politics of care by revealing the implications of the<br>feminization of migrant labour and the shortcomings of social policy at<br>the national level. Drawing on innovative theories of gender and race,<br>global justice and neocolonialism, and care and masculinity, renowned<br>and emerging scholars trace how recent policy developments are<br>transforming the lives of female care workers in Canada, Sweden, Korea,<br>and Japan and sparking national debates on care. They demonstrate that<br>ethics cannot be separated from practice -- an ethics of care that is<br>both political and critical must be grounded in the concrete activities<br>of real people working in transnational webs of social relations.</p><br><br><p> </p><br><br><p>This timely volume offers a rare cross-national comparison of care<br>arrangements and national debates on the ethics of care in the context<br>of a globalizing world.</p>