Women’s Burden: Counter-geographies of Globalization and the Feminization of Survival
Author(s)
Sassen, Saskia
Abstract
This article maps some of the key features of counter-geographies of Globalization and the Feminization of Survival, particularly those involving foreign-born women. Sassen focuses on the possibility of systemic links between the growth of these alternative circuits for survival, profit-making and hard-currency earnings, on the one hand, and major conditions in developing countries that are associated with economic globalization, on the other. Among these conditions are growth in unemployment, the closing of a large number of typically small and medium-sized enterprises oriented to national rather than export markets, and high, and often increasing government debt. While these economies are frequently grouped under the label “developing,” they are in some cases struggling, stagnant, even shrinking.
