The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization

by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Rhacel Parre?as

Book Overview

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, Parre as 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.
Parre as examines the underlying constructions of gender in neoliberal state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814767354
• ISBN13: 9780814767351
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"