Harcourt, Wendy

This article describes the situation over the last 30 years of women migrants from the Philippines in Italy, who have been caught in what many have called the ‘global care chain’. The pressure to send remittances back home is locking these women even further into the global care chain, with not only economic, but social […]

How do women from the North and women from the South view gender and poverty? What are the differences and the similarities? In this article, we give our opinions as two women who have often shared platforms, representing those two identities of ‘Southern’ and ‘Northern’; however, as we explain, we now question such categorisation. This […]

Free trade benefits developed nations’ economies to the detriment of developing countries. Southern women’s organisations are uniting to challenge their negative experiences of the global economic system. They want access to policy-making institutions and communicative technologies, to bring about redistribution of wealth, equal access to resources, and their own empowerment. Yet the division is ‘winners/losers’ […]