Nationalism, belonging, globalization and the ‘ethics of care’

Endowing migrant domestic workers with citizenship on the basis of a feminist ‘ethics of care', has been suggested as an alleviation of their current situation. However, concepts of formal citizenship does not take account of the way that other and less formal forms of citizenship give access to different types of resources, nor to the multi-layered character of belonging. Rather, the adoption of an ‘ethics of care' by women facilitate the smooth working of globalised neo-liberalism.