The force of domesticity
Subtitle: Filipina migrants and globalization
By: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas.
Series: Nation of newcomers
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
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: value: Introduction : Filipina migrants and the force of domesticity; value: Gender ideologies in the Philippines; value: Patriarchy and neoliberalism in the globalization of care; value: Gender and communication in transnational migrant families; value: The place and placelessness of migrant Filipina domestic workers; value: The derivative status of Asian American women; value: The U.S. war on trafficking and the moral disciplining of migrant women; value: Conclusion : analyzing gender and migration from the Philippines.