The force of domesticity
Subtitle: Filipina migrants and globalization
By: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas.
Series: Nation of newcomers
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780814767344; 9780814767351
Subjects: Women alien labor -- United States; Women domestics -- United States; Alien labor, Philippine; Filipino Americans -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Filipina migrants and the force of domesticity; title: Gender ideologies in the Philippines; title: Patriarchy and neoliberalism in the globalization of care; title: Gender and communication in transnational migrant families; title: The place and placelessness of migrant Filipina domestic workers; title: The derivative status of Asian American women; title: The U.S. war on trafficking and the moral disciplining of migrant women; title: Conclusion : analyzing gender and migration from the Philippines.