Shu-Ju Ada Cheng

Serving the Household and the Nation

Filipina Domestics and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan

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Produktbeschreibung

Serving the Household and the Nation is an absorbing sociological study of the globalization of domestic service. Using the case of Filipina domestics in Taiwan, Cheng examines how nationalist politics shape the experience of migrant women under the context of globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780739111727
• ISBN-10: 0739111728
• Artikelnr.: 21265235

Autorenporträt

Shu-Ju Ada Cheng is assistant professor of sociology at DePaul University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Serving the Household and the Nation Chapter 2 The
Localization of Global Trade in Domestic Service Chapter 3 Recruitment
Agencies: Recruiters of Labor, Agents of Power Chapter 4 Facing Aliens at
Home: Space of Intimacy, Space of Power Chapter 5 Weaving Sojourning Truths
Chapter 6 When the Personal Meets the Global Chapter 7 Church as the Space
of Belonging and Resistance Chapter 8 Conclusion: Homemaking and
Nation-Building