Wife or Worker?
Asian Women and Migration
This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either mail-order brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship and how migrants for marriage become workers, the authors present these modern Asian women in their multidimensional roles as wives, workers, mothers, and citizens. The case studies explore a wide gamut of experiences, including Filipino caregivers in Ca…
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Weitere Autoren: Roces, Mina (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-585-46381-0
- EAN: 9780585463810
- Produktnummer: 22886076
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'238 KB
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Edited by Nicola Piper and Mina Roces
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