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The force of domesticity : Filipina migrants and globalization / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas.
Lippincott Library HD6095 .P3115 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar.
- Series:
- Nation of newcomers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women foreign workers--United States.
- Women foreign workers.
- Women household employees--United States.
- Women household employees.
- Filipino Americans--Social conditions.
- Filipino Americans.
- United States.
- Foreign workers, Filipino.
- Physical Description:
- x, 213 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814767344
- 0814767346
- 9780814767351
- 0814767354
- OCLC:
- 182529001
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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