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9780739111727

Serving the Household and the Nation Filipina Domestics and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan

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  • ISBN13:

    9780739111727

  • ISBN10:

    0739111728

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-06-15
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $124.00

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Shu-Ju Ada Cheng is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at DePaul University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Serving the Household and the Nation
1(28)
The Localization of Global Trade in Domestic Service
29(42)
Recruitment Agencies: Recruiters of Labor, Agents of Power
71(28)
Facing Aliens at Home: Space of Intimacy, Space of Power
99(44)
Weaving Sojourning Truth
143(40)
When the Personal Meets the Global
183(30)
Church as the Space of Belonging and Resistance
213(24)
Conclusion: Homemaking and Nation-Building
237(18)
References 255(18)
Index 273(4)
About the Author 277

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