Feminist foreign policy and global (health) care work migration: Addressing the invisibility of colonial gaps in feminist policy making

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Cheung, Jessica [1 ]
Scheyer, Victoria [2 ]
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[1] Free Univ Berlin, Grad Sch North Amer Studies, Berlin, Germany
[2] Monash Univ, Sch Social & Polit Sci, Melbourne, Australia
关键词
Feminist foreign policy; care work migration; Triple Win; ethics of care; postcolonialism; Feministische Aussenpolitik; Pflegemigration; Ethik der Fursorge; Postkolonialismus; CITIZENSHIP; STATE;
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10.1080/12259276.2024.2316403
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C [社会科学总论];
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03 ; 0303 ;
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The state-sponsored recruitment of migrant healthcare workers from the global South into the global North is a contemporary practice that requires critical engagement. Germany, like many other like-minded countries, has developed its own recruitment program Triple Win which aims to sustainably and ethically secure its national health care system through the use of foreign labor. Absent from Triple Win is an awareness of the ongoing colonial power relations that reproduce the program as a practice in neocolonial care extractivism. This lack of awareness is set against the country's promotion of a feminist foreign and development policy, which seeks to transform international politics through a gender centred approach. Locating Triple Win within the context of feminist foreign policy we analyse how Germany's feminist foreign and development policy makes visible, addresses and changes the colonial power relations that sustain care work migration programs. In doing so, we seek to build on existing studies of care work migration as a gendered and racial phenomenon. To do this we adopt a postcolonial feminist approach that is grounded in an ethics of care in order to remap the local and the global through a critical analysis of care work migration as a neocolonial development practice. Die staatlich unterstutzte Rekrutierung von (Gesundheits-)Pflegekraften aus dem globalen Suden fur den globalen Norden ist eine weit verbreitete Praxis, die einer kritischen Reflexion bedarf. Deutschland hat, wie viele andere Lander mit ahnlichen Absichten, sein eigenes Anwerbeprogramm namens "Triple Win" entwickelt. Das Ziel von Triple Win besteht darin, das nationale Gesundheitssystem durch den Einsatz auslandischer Pflegekrafte nachhaltig und ethisch zu starken. Allerdings fehlt es Triple Win an einem Bewusstsein fur die fortbestehenden kolonialen Machtstrukturen, die das Programm als eine Form des (neo-)kolonialen Pflege-Extraktivismus reproduzieren. Dies steht im Kontrast zu Bestrebungen einer feministischen Aussen- und Entwicklungspolitik, die darauf abzielen, die internationale Politik durch einen geschlechtszentrierten Ansatz zu transformieren. In diesem Artikel untersuchen wir, ob und wie die feministische Aussen- und Entwicklungspolitik Deutschlands die zugrunde liegenden kolonialen Machtverhaltnisse solcher Migrationsprogramme sichtbar macht und verandert. Theoretisch stutzen wir uns dabei auf bestehende Forschung zur Pflegearbeitsmigration als geschlechtsspezifisches und rassistisches Phanomen. Dabei wenden wir einen postkolonialen feministischen Ansatz an, der auf einer Ethik der Fursorge basiert, um das Lokale und das Globale durch eine kritische Analyse von Care Work Migration als neokoloniale Entwicklungspraxis neu zu gestalten.
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