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This 5 page paper discusses the phenomenon of women leaving their homes and children to work in other countries where wages are better. The toll such migrations take on the women and their children is explored. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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answers the question: "How has a globalizing economy changed the work of the women in both the Third World and here at home?" Discussion In their book Global Woman: Nannies,
Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell have collected a number of essays that describe the lives of the women who are now traveling
around the world to find jobs. In most cases, they cannot make enough money at home to survive, but by working in more affluent countries, they are able to support
their families-but only by leaving them behind. That is, these women are leaving their own children to care for the children of more affluent families. In their introduction, Ehrenreich and
Russell describe the life of Josephine Perera, a nanny from Sri Lanka who works in Athens, Greece (Ehrenreich and Russell, 2002). Her story is typical of this new class of
global worker: mobile, independent, but ultimately torn by her decision to leave her children. Josephine has now been away from home and her children for ten years; working first in
Saudi Arabia, then in Kuwait, now in Greece (Ehrenreich and Russell, 2002). Josephine, like most of the women who are working in other countries like this, sends a large portion
of her salary home to support her children, as well as to pay the nanny who looks after them (Ehrenreich and Russell, 2002). She makes far more money this way
than she could in Sri Lanka, but she is estranged from the children: her eldest drives a bus and seems to be doing all right, but the two younger siblings
are in real trouble (Ehrenreich and Russell, 2002). "Norma has attempted suicide three times. Suminda ... boards in a grim Dickensian orphanage that forbids talk during meals and showers" (Ehrenreich
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