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Serving the Household and the Nation
Filipina Domestics and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan
Serving the Household and the Nation
Filipina Domestics and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan
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Serving the Household and the Nation is an absorbing sociological study of the globalization of domestic service. Using the case of Filipina domestics in Taiwan, Cheng examines how nationalist politics shape the experience of migrant women under the context of globalization. For migrant domestics, it is often the state policy that creates their structural vulnerability in public and in private. Cheng focuses on the question of how the intervention of the state and the development of nationhood shape the localization of domestic service and explores the nexus between homemaking and nation-building. This revealing book demonstrates how the management of foreign domestics is not only important for labor control but also central to the state's administration over alien subjects, the development of nationhood, and, in this case study, the changing ethnoscape in Taiwan.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 The Localization of Global Trade in Domestic Service
Chapter 3 Recruitment Agencies: Recruiters of Labor, Agents of Power
Chapter 4 Facing Aliens at Home: Space of Intimacy, Space of Power
Chapter 5 Weaving Sojourning Truths
Chapter 6 When the Personal Meets the Global
Chapter 7 Church as the Space of Belonging and Resistance
Chapter 8 Conclusion: Homemaking and Nation-Building
Product details
| Published | Jun 15 2006 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9780739111727 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Dimensions | 9 x 7 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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