Global Cinderellas

蓝佩嘉 美国西北大学社会学博士，现任台湾大学社会系教授。研究领域包括：性别社会学、工作社会学和移民与全球化等。曾于柏克莱大学、纽约大学、荷兰国际亚洲研究所担任访问学者，并常于《中国时报》观念平台撰写专栏。

出版者:Duke University Press Books

作者:Pei-Chia Lan

页数:320

出版时间:2006-4-3

价格:USD 89.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780822337300

图书标签:社会学女性人类学女性主义全球化transnationalismTaiwan社会学/人类学

Migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic workers around the world. Since the 1980s, the newly prosperous countries of East Asia have recruited foreign household workers at a rapidly increasing rate. Many come from the Philippines and Indonesia. Pei-Chia Lan interviewed and spent time with dozens of Filipina and Indonesian domestics working in and around Taipei as well as many of their Taiwanese employers. Based on the vivid ethnographic detail she collected, Lan provides a nuanced look at how global inequalities are enacted in private households. She also sheds light on the fate of the workers, "global Cinderellas" who seek an escape from poverty at home only to find themselves treated as disposable labour abroad.Lan demonstrates how economic disparities, immigration policies, race, ethnicity, and gender intersect in the relationship between the employees and their Taiwanese employers. The employers are eager to flex their newly acquired financial muscle; many are first-generation career women as well as first-generation employers.The domestics are recruited from abroad as contract and "guest" workers; restrictive immigration policies prohibit them from seeking permanent residence or transferring from one employer to another. They take care of Taiwanese families' children, often having left their own behind. While many of the domestics, particularly the Filipinas, are well educated, they are expected to act deferentially at work. Throughout Global Cinderellas, Lan pays particular attention to how the women she studied identify themselves in relation to "others" - whether they be of different classes, nationalities, ethnicities, or education levels. In so doing, she offers a framework for thinking about how migrant workers and their employers understand themselves in the midst of dynamic trans-national labour flows.

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用户评价

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The feminisation of domestic work; Taiwanese new rich women transferring the womanhood/motherhood to their employees; the migrant workers' esteem - linguistic resistance and their pride as main breadwinners when managing a transnational marriage......好感动

看了才知道为什么评价那么高。theoretically和empirically都是一个会讲故事的人