The Force of Domesticity : : Filipina Migrants and Globalization /

The Force of Domesticity : : Filipina Migrants and Globalization / / Rhacel Salazar Parrenas.

Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines, and Filipina migrant entertainers in Tokyo, Parreñas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that maintain women’s domesticity in migration, as well as...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
VerfasserIn:
Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar,
MitwirkendeR:
Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar,
Tam, Winnie,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Nation of Nations ; 26
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Gender Ideologies in the Philippines
  • 2. Patriarchy and Neoliberalism in the Globalization of Care
  • 3. Gender and Communication in Transnational Migrant Families
  • 4. The Place and Placelessness of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers
  • 5. The Derivative Status of Asian American Women, by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Winnie Tam
  • 6. The U.S. War on Traffi cking and the Moral Disciplining of Migrant Women
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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