Catherine Ceniza Choy

Empire of Care

Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History

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Produktbeschreibung

""Empire of Care" is an extremely important work, a milestone in Asian American and American studies, and a singular contribution to the emergent field of Filipino American studies."--Vicente L. Rafael, author of "White Love and Other Events in Filipino History"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330523
• ISBN-10: 0822330520
• Artikelnr.: 21551313

Autorenporträt

Catherine Ceniza Choy is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Contours of a Filipino American History 1
Part I. Nurturing Empire
1. Nursing Matters: Women and U.S. Colonialism in the Philippines 17
2. “The Usual Subjects": The Preconditions of Professional Migration 41
Part II. Caring Unbound
3. “Your Cap Is a Passport": Filipino Nurses and the U.S. Exchange Visitor
Program 61
4. To the Point of No Return: From Exchange Visitor to Permanent Resident
> 5. Trial and Error: Crime and Punishment in America's “Wound Culture"
> 6. Conflict and Caring: Filipino Nurses Organize in the United States 166
Epilogue 186
Appendix: On Sources 193
Notes 197
Bibliography 229
Index 245