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The force of domesticity : Filipina migrants and globalization /

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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Nation of newcomers.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Winnie Tam
  • The U.S. war on trafficking and the moral disciplining of migrant women
  • Conclusion : analyzing gender and migration from the Philippines.