Female labour migration in Ukraine and its consequences

The article presents results of investigation of the female «care migration» from Ukraine. This phenomenon is considered in the context of the «global economics of care and nursing» based on the «domino effect» and forming «global care chains». The engine of this mechanism is the «care drain» tactics that allows consuming countries to import care and nursing personnel from supplying countries through female «care migration». On the basis of situational analysis the author examines the emerging «care deficit» in the familial and institutional context. She shows that the «care deficit» resulting from the mass departures of women affects all family generations - children, husbands and the elderly even at the state level. Drawing on the obtained data the author comes to a conclusion that there is no sufficient grounds yet for assertions about the «care crisis» in Ukraine mainly owing to lack of necessary statistical and sociological data. At the same time, the thesis about the «surplus of care» in the Ukrainian society seems groundless.