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Focusing on the state, family, and education, contributors to this special issue examine migration through the experiences of children and youth. The authors provide a critical perspective on the structural inequalities that define migration in Asia, calling attention to ethnic exclusion, the plight of multigenerational undocumented and stateless children, and the geopolitical inequalities that shape migration flows across the continent.
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.
aThe 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.a 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 womenas 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 womenas domesticity and creates contradictory messages about womenas place in society, simultaneously pushing women inside and outside the home.
What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes,
sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common?
Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness,
and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the
day-to-day work that we require to survive. This book takes a close
look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and
illuminates the juncture where money and intimacy meet.
This issue addresses how laborers within intimate industries-those who do interpersonal work that tends to the sexual, bodily, health, hygiene, or care needs of individuals-are shaping Asia's growing role in the global economy. The contributors investigate how intimate industries support relational connections for consumers while disrupting laborers' relationships, as in the case of migrants who perform intimate labor away from their families and communities of origin. The articles collected here include examinations of such trade-offs and their complex meanings and implications for the workers. The authors explore these social processes through the lens of industries that organize, enable, or delimit the trade in domestic labor, marriage migration, companionship and romance, sex work, pornographic performance, surrogate mothering and ova donation, and cosmetics sales. This issue puts people, as embodied subjects, back into narratives of economic change and offers a perspective on globalization from below. Contributors: Daniele Belanger, Hae Yeon Choo, Nicole Constable, Daisy Deomampo, Akhil Gupta, Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, Pei-Chia Lan, Purnima Mankekar, Eileen Otis, Juno Salazar Parrenas, Rhacel Parrenas, Sharmila Rudrappa, Celine Parrenas Shimizu, Rachel Silvey, Hung Cam Thai, Leslie Wang
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