Maggie Dent

Maggie Dent is a fourth-year majoring in Global Studies and minoring in Global Health. Her research project will focus on the process of globalization and its effects on “gendered care work migration”. Through her research, she hopes to confront the rhetoric of what constitutes “unskilled work,” because despite connotations of care work being menial labor, it is an important and vital part of our global economy. Despite the need for women to fill these jobs, little regulation in care work practices means that women involved have little job security, poor pay, and live in an ‘invisible’ sphere of employment. While some care workers may be receiving the benefits of upward mobility, the immigrant caregivers are further victims of a perpetuated and gendered economic system that keeps women in the home. Maggie hopes for this research to explore the effects that “gendered care work migration” can have on individual livelihoods, family intimacy, and gender equality.