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The Force of Domesticity - Filipina Migrants and Globalization (Hardcover)
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The Force of Domesticity - Filipina Migrants and Globalization (Hardcover)
Series: Nation of Nations
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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 women's
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
women's domesticity and creates contradictory messages about
women's place in society, simultaneously pushing women inside and
outside the home.
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