{"id":498,"date":"2023-07-05T15:30:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T22:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/?p=498"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:19:10","slug":"divinereyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/2023\/divinereyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Working in the Global North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[S]tructures like a capitalist and exploitative nation-state will only see people&#8230;as just bodies that need to contribute to empowering those in control even further, no matter the cost<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Creator:<br \/>\nDivine Reyes<\/p>\n<p>An important aspect of Asian diasporic discussion within a capitalist system is the intersection of labour politics, gender, and racialization. For a long time, the provision of care-taker labour in Canada, whether in terms of medical care or domestic care, has been disproportionately shouldered by racialized women and femmes&#8230;particularly those with more complex migration histories because of the broader economic relationship between the Global North and the Global South characterized by one-sided exploitation. In Divine&#8217;s interview, her mother speaks about her experience creating and living and exercising agency within a predatory economic system and the difficulties that all of that entails. Have you noticed this kind of intersectional breakdown of care-taker labour around you?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"590px\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen onload=\"var tF=this;setInterval(function(){var fh=tF.scrollWidth*0.636;if(fh&gt;400)fh=400;tF.style.height=fh+'px';},500);\" style=\"border:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/app.clas.ubc.ca\/guest\/clas\/index.php?anon=true&#038;nevid=0eh%2BLR%2F4RhrYloFIbnvDle8BqNFlacJbmr613fspuv0OXgxHZuQ0v2acXZ8rxvR0jVvkxxONLhSnPLrj%2FS0ms4%2Bi1Yulem5SDReeqRoZWYJ4EETRqbDwinuRGw4Fx%2BduE2cgnEh69YhIQHvhA5sdcurexs3azDCnWPEUHvrufce3TdqyLdVH6q4Kr5%2FOOIMpVZFau5ryrOjbcFpIJ2UkrSyKOPCLcFZVjxElYkYf0%2F0%3D&#038;co=false&#038;minimal=true&#038;discbtn=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[S]tructures like a capitalist and exploitative nation-state will only see people&#8230;as just bodies that need to contribute to empowering those in control even further, no matter the cost Creator: Divine Reyes An important aspect of Asian diasporic discussion within a capitalist system is the intersection of labour politics, gender, and racialization. For a long time, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/2023\/divinereyes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Working in the Global North&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,1,46],"tags":[97,98,99,100,14,95],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023papers","category-acam330","category-papers","tag-capitalism","tag-economic-exploitation","tag-labour-rights","tag-migration","tag-racism","tag-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycacamshowcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}