Care involves relationships, activities, and work that are essential to sustaining life. The field of inquiry in care studies is broad and unfolds across different levels of analysis: interpersonal, community, institutional, and transnational relationships. Our research incorporates various theoretical and analytical approaches, most of which incorporate gender as a lens, as well as its relationship to other axes of social inequality and the gendered division of labor. Our lines of inquiry include: a) the relationship between care work and international migration; b) jobs and professions associated with care (nurses, community workers, migrant caregivers); c) the collective dimension of care, community care practices, and life-sustaining practices; d) emerging processes of politicization surrounding care that challenge the boundaries between the public and private spheres through new forms of civic advocacy; e) the role of the community in the social organization of care and its relationship to multiple forms of social inequality; f) the care needs of different population groups and their relationship to public policy.
