The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization - Couverture souple

Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814767354 ISBN 13 : 9780814767351

Editeur : New York University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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, Rhacel Salazar Parrenas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that maintain women's domesticity in migration, as well as the ways migrant women and their children negotiate these adversities.Parrenas examines the underlying constructions of gender in neoliberal state regimes, export-oriented economies such as that of the Philippines, protective migration laws, and the actions and decisions of migrant Filipino women in maintaining families and communities, raising questions about gender relations, the status of women in globalization, and the meanings of greater consumptive power that migration garners for women. "The Force of Domesticity" starkly illustrates how the operation of globalization enforces notions of women's domesticity and creates contradictory messages about women's place in society, simultaneously pushing women inside and outside the home.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0814767354
• ISBN 13: 9780814767351
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224