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Author Parreņas, Rhacel Salazar.

Title Servants of globalization : women, migration and domestic work / Rhacel Salazar Parreņas.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.412791 P248s 2007    ---  Available
Description xi, 309 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-304) and index.
Contents The dislocations of migrant Filipina domestic workers -- The Philippines and the outflow of labor -- The international division of reproductive labor -- The transnational family: a postindustrial household structure with preindustrial values -- Intergenerational and gender relations in transnational families -- Contradictory class mobility: the politics of domestic work in globalization -- The dislocation of nonbelonging: domestic workers in the Filipino migrant communities of Rome and Los Angeles.
Subject Women household employees.
Foreign workers, Filipino.
Filipinos -- Employment -- Foreign countries.
Women -- Employment -- Foreign countries.
Philippines -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
ISBN 0804739226 (paper : alk. paper)
0804739218 (alk. paper)
9780804739214 (alk. paper)
9780804739221 (paper : alk. paper)
Standard No. UKM bA160015
NLGGC 269677100
NLGGC 203370236
YDXCP 1739524
YDXCP 1739523
UKM bA1V1426
NZ1 5866734
AU@ 000023258107
AU@ 000023129024
AU@ 000021869105

 
    
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