Servants of globalization : women, migration and domestic work / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Assistant Professor of Women's and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Publisher: Quezon City, [Philippines] : Ateneo De Manila University Press, 2003Description: xi, 309 pages ; 23Content type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9715504493
- 331.4 P259 2003
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Print Materials | Main Library Filipiniana Section | 331.4 P259 2003 c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0118109 |
"Reprint. Originally published: New York: Standford University Press, 2001." --Verso of title page
Includes bibliography: pages 283-304 and index.
"Servants of Globalization is the first cross-national comparative study of the increasingly visible phenomenon of Filipina labor immigration to first world centers. Through extensive fieldwork and interviews of Filipino domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, Parreñas reveals striking parallels in the women's lives across locations. Her subject speak eloquently about their experiences of multiple dislocation: quasi-citizenship status that leave them only with partial rights, separation from family, downward class mobility, and alienation with in the migrant community. Parreñas finds that women's efforts to mitigate their sense of dislocation simultaneously serve to resist and reinscribe the power relations that subordinate them." -- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California, Berkeley.
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