Intimate encounters : Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan /

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This study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars--where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreign...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Faier, Lieba
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Women > Japan > Social conditions.
Women > Philippines > Social conditions.
Women > Japan > History.
Women household employees > Japan.
Women foreign workers > Japan.
Foreign workers, Filipino > Japan.
Femmes > Japon > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Philippines > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Japon > Histoire.
Employées de maison > Japon.
Travailleuses étrangères > Japon.
Travailleurs étrangers philippins > Japon.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Foreign workers, Filipino.
Women.
Women foreign workers.
Women household employees.
Women > Social conditions.
Japan.
Philippines.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Figures of desires
  • pt. 2. Terms of relations.

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