The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans

by Chien-Juh Gu

The Resilient Self explores how international migration re-shapes women's senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women, who, in turn, negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement.

Most of the women immigrated as dependents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813586054
• ISBN13: 9780813586052
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.5"