Force of Domesticity Filipina Migrants and Globalization

Name: Force of Domesticity Filipina Migrants and Globalization
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ISBN: 9780814767351

ISBN-10: 0814767354

ISBN-13: 9780814767351

Edition: 2008

Authors: Rhacel Salazar Parrenas

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The Force of Domesticity offers fresh perspectives on the complex linkages of gender and globalization that connect the world today. Through a multi-site analysis of Filipino women, Parreas shows how domesticity, remittances, and NGO and state-imposed notions of morality conspire to create new structures of inequalities and opportunities for transnational migrant women. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Domestica 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, Parreas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that maintain womens domesticity in…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 8/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Rhacel Salazar Parreñasis Professor of American Civilization at Brown University. She is the author ofServants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic WorkandChildren of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes, and the co-editor ofAsian Diasporas: New Conceptions, New Formations.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Filipina Migrants and the Force of Domesticity



Gender Ideologies in the Philippines



Patriarchy and Neoliberalism in the Globalization of Care



Gender and Communication in Transnational Migrant Families



The Place and Placelessness of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers



The Derivative Status of Asian American Women




The U.S. War on Trafficking and the Moral Disciplining of Migrant Women


Conclusion: Analyzing Gender and Migration from the Philippines


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author