The force of domesticity : Filipina migrants and globalization af Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (Bog)

Forfatter: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 213
Forlag: New York University Press
Udgivelsesår: 2008
The 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, Parreas 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. --Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Domestica 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, Parreas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that maintain womens domesticity in migration, as well as the ways migrant women and their children negotiate these adversities. Parreas 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 womens domesticity and creates contradictory messages about womens place in society, simultaneously pushing women inside and outside the home.
Titel: The force of domesticity : Filipina migrants and globalization
Udgave: 1. udgave

Sammendrag: Bogen analyserer gennem etnografiske casestudier filippinske kvinders migration som hushjælpere, omsorgsarbejdere og entertainere i Rom, Los Angeles, Tokyo og Filippinerne. Parreñas beskriver, hvordan globalisering, neoliberal statspolitik, eksportorienteret økonomi og migrationsregimer fastholder kvinder i domesticitet og omsorgsarbejde, samtidig med at de oplever nye muligheder gennem transnational mobilitet. Hun viser, hvordan pengeoverførsler, krav fra familie og lokalsamfund samt NGO’er og statslige institutioner producerer moralske forventninger til kvinders rolle som mødre og forsørgere. Bogen diskuterer den internationalt kønnede arbejdsdeling, spændinger mellem frihed og udbytning, og hvordan mødre og børn i transnationale familier forhandler afstand, omsorg og tilhørsforhold.
Type: Paperback