![]() | The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization Subjects: Women alien labor -- United States; Women domestics -- United States; Alien labor Philippine; Filipino Americans -- Social conditions; 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 women's domesticity in migration, as well as the ways migrant women and their children negotiate these adversities. Parrenas Rhacel Salazar : 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 . |
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