How are states and women insecured as part of global care chains? The case of Germany, Poland, Ukraine

Abstract

This research explores the insecurities of states and women connected to global care chains. It analyzes the economic, social, and demographic context in which these insecurities exist and reproduced. Using Critical Security Studies and Feminist Security Studies as the theoretical framework together with an International Political Economy approach, it takes Germany, Poland, and Ukraine as the case study. It also aims to put state-women’s security into a perspective in which the meaning of security is deepened. The problematization is how the commodification of care brings insecurities for states and women, while done in search for security.