We understand global care chains to be linkages of persons or homes that cross borders, which means that they don't stay within the borders of a nation-state but rather connect different territories of different countries, in fact they also cross oceans. ...linkages of persons or homes that cross borders and that are formed with the objective of sustaining daily life, which means that they allow for the functioning and the daily management of households, and through which care is transferred from some people to others or from some homes to other homes, based on axes of power. 