Kim England

University of Washington Seattle | UW · Department of Geography

Care, citizenship and belonging in healthcare practices and policy are addressed by focusing on three groups of migrants to the UK: well-established migrant communities who came from India and West Indies; international nurses recruited to address a 'nurse shortage'; and asylum seekers who had been released from detention centres.

The professional organizations to which geographers belong and by which they are represented have a civic duty and ethical responsibility to educate their members about mental health issues in their professions and, by default, their work environments. And yet national-level professional associations in North America are lagging behind universities...

Home care work will be among the fastest growing jobs in the USA in the next 10 years, linked to the increase in people aged over 65. Located at the intersection of health care, social policy and the state, home care work is notable for its low pay, job insecurity and irregular hours. The legal and economic precarity of home care workers has roots...

This article explores the spatialities associated with the recent emergence of a social movement of domestic workers in the United States. Domestic work is rendered invisible, not only as a form of ‘real work’, but also because it is hidden in other people’s homes. The article unpacks the home as a private space beyond government intervention, and...

Positionality initially emerged from critiques of omniscient, unmarked researchers producing supposedly value‐free, impartial research. Beginning from the premise that knowledge is partial, situated, and power‐laden, positionality highlights how people, including researchers, are differently positioned in hierarchies of power and privilege and thus...

Like many other global north countries, the US is facing a nursing shortage. In the last few years, such nursing shortages have been identified as part of a broader ‘global crisis’ in nursing. Resorting to importing internationally educated nurses is a popular strategy to address the shortfall. Importing nurses into the US is not new. However, the...

Recent debates about nursing shortages in the Global North are part of a broader global nursing workforce crisis. Western governments have been increasing their recruitment of international nurses to fill their shortages, but this accelerates the global migration of nurses. The UK is a key node in global nurse migration. The increase in internation...

We consider the increasingly common provision of home-based health care by migrant care workers. In particular, we explore the racial division of paid reproductive care and ideas about embodied work to show that although (im)migrants tend to fall to the bottom of the hierarchy of care work, the reasons are multifaceted and complex. We draw on inter...

Body work is a key element of home healthcare. Recent restructuring of health and social care services means the home is increasingly a key site of long-term care. While there is a growing literature on the social dynamics between care recipients and their family caregivers, less is known about the formal work dynamic between paid care workers and...

This paper examines the changing role of women's paid work outside the home in Canada and the US since the late nineteenth century. In particular we provide a longitudinal analysis of clerical work: a job sector that has constantly ranked as one of the top occupations for women in both countries. Drawing on empirical evidence from both Canada and t...

The book is an analysis of cultural, social as well as political economic expressions of neoliberalization and argues for an appreciation of the relational geographies of neoliberalization. In-depth empirical research spanning a variety of world regions. A range of topics including homelessness, comparative politics, economic development and social...

Neoliberalism: Ideology, Policy and Program, State Form, GovernmentalityThe Collection: States, Networks, PeoplesConclusions

Neoliberalizing Health Care, Policy Transfer and Managed CompetitionThe Rise of Managed Competition in Home Care in OntarioNeoliberal Provincial PoliticsManaged Competition and Home Care WorkersConclusion AcknowledgmentsNotes

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We consider the relations between gender and technology in the workplace, focusing on clerical work in the information workplace, especially the finance and insurance sector. Our goal is to excavate a 'hidden history' of how clerical work and the artifacts which sustain it have been understood and deployed under different cultural and economic circ...

We consider the relations between gender and technology in the workplace, focusing on clerical work in the information workplace, especially the finance and insurance sector. Our goal is to excavate a ‘hidden history’ of how clerical work and the artifacts which sustain it have been understood and deployed under different cultural and economic circ...

People with disabilities, especially women, suffer from appallingly high rates of poverty, and paid work is frequently cited as a primary route out of poverty. I draw on feminist analyses of work and disability studies to reflect on the Canadian federal government's Employment Equity Act. I use the example of the 'Big Six' banks to investigate the...

The next challenge for the subdiscipline (of political geography) is to incorporate new politicizations of human geography through… feminist geography (the poli-tics of 'public' and 'private') (1994: p. 450). (T)he subdiscipline has still yet to meet the challenge of feminist geography whose concerns for power in place and space from a gender persp...

Under mounting pressure from women, Canada introduced employment policies to address the gender wage gap and women's access to a wider range of jobs. The policies were generally introduced between the late 1970s and early 1990s. Over time these policies have shifted from focusing on equality to emphasising equity. Two pivotal policies are pay equit...

I draw on my own experiences as a straight feminist geographer to address questions regarding teaching sexualities in geography. First, I look asexing' anqueering' geography curricula, not only upper level undergraduate and graduate courses that lend themselves to discussions of sexualities, compulsory heterosexuality, and heterosexism, but also lo...

Live-in paid domestic w ork represents a peculiar form of paid employment and employer± employee relations. Contradictions and ambiguities arise from the domestic worker'w orkplace' being her employer'home'; w hile intimacy, affective labour and a high degree of personalism veil the asymmetrical class relation between employer and employee. In T or...

PIP This special section contains three papers that are cited elsewhere in this issue. The papers deal with aspects of citizenship and international migration, such as gender, sexual preference, and race. The focus is on migration to developed countries.

In Canada, paid domestic work is often associated with (im)migrant women from a variety of countries of origin. We critically analyse Canada's foreign domestic worker programmes, noting the shifting definitions of which nationalities should participate. We note how gendered, racialised, and classed constructions of national identities infuse these...

In this paper I investigate local labor-market processes which are associated with clerical employment in the financial and business services. I use a case study of Columbus, Ohio, to examine the process by which individual workplaces go about recruiting women workers and how women search for paid work. This process is viewed from the perspectives...

The early 1970s was a period of immense social upheaval, with new social movements dominating the urban social landscape. Social scientists were dealing with a crisis of relevance and David Harvey's Social Justice and the City was one response to this crisis. Despite the growth of the contemporary women's movement in the early 1970s, women are prac...

Feminist and poststructural challenges to objectivist social science demand greater reflection by the researcher with the aim of producing more inclusive methods sensitive to the power relations in fieldwork. Following a discussion of contrasting approaches to these power relations, I present a reflexive examination of a research project on sexual...

Abstract The restructuring of the U.S. economy has resulted in the expansion and suburbanization of office employment. One theory is that an attraction of suburban locations is their large supply of women whose domestic responsibilities restrict their employment prospects and job-search area, spatially entrapping themin their neighborhood of reside...

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This paper begins with the premise that gender relations are socially and culturally constructed and, as such, vary over time and space. It is argued that the particular nature of gender relations at any point in time is reflected in the spatial structure of cities, and as gender relations are not constant over time, neither is the spatial structur...

"Individual labor market experiences [in Venezuela] are examined in terms of educational attainment, labor force participation, and wages received. Explanatory factors include personal attributes and two multivariate scales measuring place characteristics related to development. The results indicate that place characteristics associated with develo...