Global Cinderellas - 9780822337423
Un libro in lingua di Pei Lan chia edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2006
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Lan demonstrates how economic disparities, immigration policies, race, ethnicity, and gender intersect in the relationship between the migrant workers and their Taiwanese employers. The employers are eager to flex their recently acquired financial muscle; many are first-generation career women as well as first-generation employers. The domestics are recruited from abroad as contract and “guest” workers; restrictive immigration policies prohibit them from seeking permanent residence or transferring from one employer to another. They care for Taiwanese families' children, often having left their own behind. Throughout Global Cinderellas, Lan pays particular attention to how the women she studied identify themselves in relation to “others”—whether they be of different classes, nationalities, ethnicities, or education levels. In so doing, she offers a framework for thinking about how migrant workers and their employers understand themselves in the midst of dynamic transnational labor flows.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Global Cinderellas
- Sottotitolo: Migrant Domestics And Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Pei Lan chia
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 04 Aprile '06
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Women household employees Taiwan Women Employment Taiwan Women migrant labor Philippines
- Pagine: 304
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0822337428
- EAN-13: 9780822337423