Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work, Second Edition
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Book Info
Author
Parreñas, Rhacel
Word Count
64,000 words
based on page count
Pages
256 pages
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Edition Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition Publish Date
2015-01-01
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0804796149
ISBN-13: 9780804796149
Description
Servants Of Globalization Offers A Groundbreaking Study Of Migrant Filipino Domestic Workers Who Leave Their Own Families Behind To Do The Caretaking Work Of The Global Economy. Since Its Initial Publication, The Book Has Informed Countless Students And Scholars And Set The Research Agenda On Labor Migration And Transnational Families. With This Second Edition, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Returns To Rome And Los Angeles To Consider How The Migrant Communities Have Changed. Children Have Now Joined Their Parents. Male Domestic Workers Are Present In Significantly Greater Numbers. And, Perhaps Most Troubling, The Population Has Aged, Presenting New Challenges For The Increasingly Elderly Domestic Workers. New Chapters Discuss These Three Increasingly Important Constituencies. The Entire Book Has Been Revised And Updated, And A New Introduction Offers A Global, Comparative Overview Of The Citizenship Status Of Migrant Domestic Workers. Servants Of Globalization Remains The Defining Work On The International Division Of Reproductive Labor.-- The Global Migration Of Filipino Domestic Workers -- The International Division Of Reproductive Labor -- The Transnational Family -- Gender And Intergenerational Relations -- Contradictory Class Mobility -- The Crisis Of Masculinity -- The Aging Of Migrant Domestic Workers. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
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