CIRCLE - Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities

Fiona Williams gives Australian lecture

09 March 2011

Professor Fiona Williams gave a lecture entitled "Who Cares? Migrant Workers in the Transnational Care Economy" at University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney on 24 February 2010.

She spoke about the dynamics behind international "care chains" and "care drains" caused by women workers migrating from poorer regions of the world to do care and domestic work in richer countries.

Drawing from her own research, she explained the personal and political consequences of this phenomenon, and argued that it posed a major challenge for global justice.

Professor Williams holds a visiting professorship between 2011 and 2016 in the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW, and her lecture formed part of the "So, what? Public lectures in contemporary humanities and social sciences" series.

• Who cares? Migrant workers in the transnational care economy (public lecture)