Wife or worker? : Asian women and migration / edited by Nicola Piper and Mina Roces ; foreword by Eleonore Kofman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Piper, Nicola.

Roces, Mina, 1959-

Series:

Asia/Pacific/perspectives

Asia/Pacific/Perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women foreign workers--Southeast Asia.

Women foreign workers.

Women in development--Southeast Asia.

Women in development.

Emigration and immigration.

Southeast Asia--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Southeast Asia.

Women foreign workers--East Asia.

Women in development--East Asia.

East Asia--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

x, 219 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]

Summary:

This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either 'mail-order' brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship and how migrants for marriage become workers, the authors present these modern Asian women in their multidimensional roles as wives, workers, mothers, and citizens.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Marriage and Migration in an Age of Globalization / Nicola Piper, Mina Roces 1

2 Filipinas in Canada

De-skilling as a Push toward Marriage / Deirdre McKay 23

3 Does Marriage "Liberate" Women from Sex Work?

Thai Women in Germany / Prapairat R. Mix, Nicola Piper 53

4 Sisterhood Is Local: Filipino Women in Mount Isa / Mina Roces 73

5 Gender, Marriage, and Skilled Migration: The Case of Singaporeans in China / Katie Willis, Brenda Yeoh 101

6 Reflections on Transnational Life-Course and Migratory Patterns of Middle-Class Women

Preliminary Observations from Malaysia / Michelle Lee, Nicola Piper 121

7 Migrating for the Children: Taiwanese American Women in Transnational Families / Maria W.L. Chee 137

8 Wife, Mother, and Maid: The Triple Role of Filipino Domestic Workers in Spain and Italy / Rogelia Pe-Pua 157

9 International Marriage through Introduction Agencies: Social and Legal Realities of "Asian" Wives of Japanese Men / Tomoko Nakamatsu 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742523772

0742523780

OCLC:

51251733