Feminism, Motherhood, and the Globalization of Reproduction: What is Justice?

The following presentation interrogates this erasure of immigrant women from our vision of who we are as US citizens. I analyze the process and function of placing immigrant domestics and nannies in the shadows and avoiding issues surrounding employee rights, safety and health problems, and childcare needs. Examining the nexus of immigration, nationality, and markets is central to the social reproduction of the “American” family, communities and country. Immigrant women provide affluent families with “assisted reproduction” in the US (and internationally); and vital to conceiving a new just world order.