The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization - Rilegato

Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0814767346 ISBN 13: 9780814767344

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

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, Parreñas 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.

Parreñas 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0814767346
• ISBN 13: 9780814767344
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 213