Servants of Globalization Women, Migration, and Domestic Work, First Edition

Name: Servants of Globalization Women, Migration, and Domestic Work, First Edition
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ISBN: 9780804739221

ISBN-10: 0804739226

ISBN-13: 9780804739221

Edition: 2001

Authors: Rhacel Parreï¿½as

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Largely based upon interviews with domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, this study exposes the troubling aspects of globalisation and economic migration as it directly affects women from the Philippines.

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/23/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.42" wide x 8.98" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers in Rome and Los Angeles



The Dislocations of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers



The Philippines and the Outflow of Labor



The International Division of Reproductive Labor



The Transnational Family: A Postindustrial Household Structure with Preindustrial Values



Intergenerational and Gender Relations in Transnational Families



Contradictory Class Mobility: The Politics of Domestic Work in Globalization



The Dislocation of Nonbelonging: Domestic Workers in the Filipino Migrant Communities of Rome and Los Angeles


Conclusion: Servants of Globalization: Different Settings, Parallel Lives


App. A: Characteristics of the Samples


App. B: Tables


Notes


Bibliography


Index