The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization by Rhacel Salazar

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Force of Domesticity by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas Illustrates how the operation of globalization enforces notions of womens domesticity and creates contradictory messages about womens place in society FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 womens 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 womens domesticity and creates contradictory messages about womens place in society, simultaneously pushing women inside and outside the home. Author Biography Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of American Civilization at Brown University. She is the author of Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work and Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes, and the co-editor of Asian Diasporas: New Conceptions, New Formations. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Filipina Migrants and the Force of Domesticity1. Gender Ideologies in the Philippines 2. Patriarchy and Neoliberalism in the Globalization of Care 3. Gender and Communication in Transnational Migrant Families4. The Place and Placelessness of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers 5. The Derivative Status of Asian American Women, by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas and Winnie Tam 6. The U.S. War on Trafficking and the Moral Disciplining of Migrant WomenConclusion: Analyzing Gender and Migration from the Philippines NotesBibliography Index About the Author Review "The Force of Domesticity offers fresh perspectives on the complex linkages of gender and globalization that connect the world today. Through a multi-site analysis of Filipino women, Parrenas shows how domesticity, remittances, and NGO and state-imposed notions of morality conspire to create new structures of inequalities and opportunities for transnational migrant women." Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Domestica Promotional Illustrates how the operation of globalization enforces notions of womens domesticity and creates contradictory messages about womens place in society Long Description 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, Parrenas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that maintain womens domesticity in migration, as well as the ways migrant women and their children negotiate these adversities. Parrenas 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 womens domesticity and creates contradictory messages about womens place in society, simultaneously pushing women inside and outside the home. Review Quote "We found this book to be a compelling analysis of the plight of Filipina emigrants." -Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books Details ISBN0814767354 Author Rhacel Salazar Parrenas Short Title FORCE OF DOMESTICITY Publisher New York University Press Language English ISBN-10 0814767354 ISBN-13 9780814767351 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Imprint New York University Press Subtitle Filipina Migrants and Globalization Country of Publication United States Illustrations 1 figure Place of Publication New York Residence WI DOI 10.1604/9780814767351 Series Number 26 UK Release Date 2008-08-10 NZ Release Date 2008-08-10 US Release Date 2008-08-10 Pages 224 Series Nation of Nations Publication Date 2008-08-10 Alternative 9780814767344 DEWEY 304.809599 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2008-08-09 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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