Wife Or Worker? - Asian Women and Migration

Informationen zum Autor Nicola Piper is a senior researcher at the Regulatory Institutions Network, The Australian National University. Mina Roces teaches in the School of History, The University of New South Wales. Klappentext This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either 'mail-order' brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship and how migrants for marriage become workers, the authors present these modern Asian women in their multidimensional roles as wives, workers, mothers, and citizens. Zusammenfassung This volume challenges the perception of Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. There are a wide range of case studies! all showing the multiplicity of roles women maintain! and emphasizing the point that marriage! work and migration are inextricably linked.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nicola Piper, Nicola Roces Piper
• Con la collaborazione di: Nicola Piper (Editore), Mina Roces (Editore)
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.06.2003
• EAN: 9780742523777
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2377-7
• Pagine: 232
• Serie: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives; Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche