| Taiwanese American Transnational Families: Women and Kin Work Contributor(s): Chee, Maria W. L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415973309 ISBN-13: 9780415973304 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $49.39 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: Current American scholarship transnational studies has concentrated on connections between the United States and Latin America or the Caribbean, on working class wives who are left behind by migrant husbands, and those who migrate away as productive laborers. This book explores the differences for participants when the wives migrate for reproductive labor in the United States. This book also adds a much needed non-working class dimension to the impact of migration on women and marital relations, particularly in the Pacific Rim: where husbands remain in Taiwan, the country of origin, and send remittances to support their wives and children in the United States, the receiving country. This book thus contributes to theorizing the class and gender dimensions of international migration, and provides comparative data for the study of transnational migration. It also sheds light on understanding the familial aspect of the many interactions across the Pacific Rim, an aspect that remains understudied. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 305.895 |
| LCCN: 2004026256 |
| Series: Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, and Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.3" W x 9.34" (1.14 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the differences for participants when the wives migrate for reproductive labor in the United States. This book also adds a much needed non-working class dimension to the impact of migration on women and marital relations, particularly in the Pacific Rim: where husbands remain in Taiwan, the country of origin, and send remittances to support their wives and children in the United States, the receiving country. This book thus contributes to theorizing the class and gender dimensions of international migration, and provides comparative data for the study of transnational migration. It also sheds light on understanding the familial aspect of the many interactions across the Pacific Rim, an aspect that remains understudied. |