Despite the growing importance and global awareness of the link between care, migration and gender the OECD is having trouble fitting the pieces together. The social policy division of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and social Affairs (DELSA) has long been aware of growing care needs associated with demographic changes and women's increasing integration into the labour market; since the 1980s, its migration division has been aware that there is a gender dimension to migration; and the Development Centre focuses on North-South relations including the growing importance of remittances. Yet little has been done to combine these streams of policy research.
