Global Inequities: A Gender-Based Analysis of the Live-in Caregiver Program and the Kirogi Phenomenon in Canada

In an era of global movement of capital, information, and workers, various groups of migrant women experience systemic exclusion and marginalization in Canada. A demand for care workers for domestic services has resulted in a Live-in Caregiver Program. An increase of marketing Canadian education internationally has brought in burgeoning numbers of international students and their accompanying mothers. Despite pervasive discourses of these phenomena as "profit or asset" to nation building in both home and host countries, the cost of globalization has been picked up by women regardless of their socioeconomic class, and their marginalization is ingrained in our legislation.