Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan

Pei-Chia Lan

Published by Duke University Press 2006

Global Cinderellas

Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan

Pei-Chia Lan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387787

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About this book

A study of migrant Philipina domestic workers in Taiwan.

Author / Editor information

Pei-Chia Lan is Associate Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University.

Reviews

“This path-breaking study illustrates how boundaries—of race, class, gender, and citizenship—are imposed on migrant domestic workers. Pei-Chia Lan’s use of boundary-making as the lens through which to analyze the integration of migrant domestic workers is a very important contribution to the burgeoning field of the feminization of migration. This is a brilliant book.”—Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author of Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes

“We might imagine that the more contact we have with others across the globe the closer our social bonds. But, as Pei-Chia Lan so ably shows, we would be sadly wrong about that. In some ways the madams of Taiwan are ‘close’ to their maids from the Philippines, but in other ways they are very distant from them. Indeed, in some cases the closer we are, the more distant. Just how this works out is the subject of this clearly written, trenchantly argued, hugely important, must-read book.”—Arlie Russell Hochschild, coeditor of Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy

“[T]he book is a major contribution to contemporary research in the relevant areas, including globalization. Its feminist outlook is radical, yet pays attention to the incredible difficulty for involved parties that are willing to undo the inequalities unfolding in the space of the private home. It may be used to compare other proliferating ‘maid economies’ in places like Hong
Kong, Singapore, and the Gulf region.”

-- Ann Vogel Sociology

“[The book] makes fruitful and intelligent use of what broadly might be described as transnational feminist frameworks. . . . [It] provides us with a rich portrait of the constraints and possibilities of a particular space and moment of contemporary existence.”

-- Leslie Salzinger Gender & Society

“This is a fine and challenging ethnographic project . . . . The book is a theoretically informed, sophisticated analysis of employment relationships in the era of transnational migration. Scholars in women’s studies, and international migration and globalization will find this book insightful and informative. It is clearly written, rich in ethnographic insights, and accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students in social sciences and Asian studies.”

-- Ping-Chun Hsiung Labour/Le Travail

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
A Note on Style Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 A Bounded Global Market Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2 Disdained Aliens, Stratified Others Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
3 Jealous Madams and Anxious Mothers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
4 Crossing Borders and Gender Divides Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
5 Cinderella with a Mobile Phone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
6 Eat, Drink, Masters and Servants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 13 b&w photos

eBook

Published: April 3, 2006
ISBN: 9780822387787