New Perspectives on Mutual Dependency in Care-Giving

Many scholars see care-giving relationships as being based on mutual dependency or interdependence. Extensively cited notions of the 'global care chain' or 'international division of reproductive labour' have prepared the ground for analysis of global interdependencies in several domains. This book goes further by taking mutual dependency as a starting point for analyzing all relationships. Using the example of Vietnamese families in the Czech Republic and the Czech native nannies, it shows...