Description: Further DetailsTitle: Wife or Worker?Condition: NewSubtitle: Asian Women and MigrationISBN-10: 0742523780EAN: 9780742523784ISBN: 9780742523784Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/09/2003Description: This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship and how migrants for marriage become workers, the authors present these modern Asian women in their multidimensional roles as wives, workers, mothers, and citizens. The case studies explore a wide gamut of experiences, including Filipino caregivers in Canada, Thai sex workers in Germany, Filipino brides in Australia, Singaporean expatriates in Shanghai, Taiwanese families split between Taiwan and California, Asian migrants for marriage in Japan, and Filipino domestic helpers in Spain and Italy. All of these show the multiplicity of roles women maintain and emphasize the point that marriage, work, and migration are inextricably linked.Contributions by: Maria W. L. Chee, Michelle Lee, Deirdre McKay, Pat Mix, Tomoko Nakamatsu, Rogelia Pe-Pua, Nicola Piper, Mina Roces, Katie Willis, and Brenda Yeoh.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 146mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 304gContributor: Nicola Piper (Edited by), Mina Roces (Edited by)Genre: Society & CultureBook Series: Asia/Pacific/PerspectivesTopic: Social Sciences, Gender Sex & RelationshipsAuthor: Nicola PiperRelease Year: 2003 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Wife or Worker?
Title: Wife or Worker?
Subtitle: Asian Women and Migration
ISBN-10: 0742523780
EAN: 9780742523784
ISBN: 9780742523784
Release Date: 04/09/2003
Release Year: 2003
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Mina Roces (Edited by)
Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
Book Title: Wife or Worker? : Asian Women and Migration
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2003
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Economic Conditions, Women's Studies, Labor, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 10.8 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Mina Roces
Book Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives Ser.
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
