Pei Chia Lan: 2 books
Global Cinderellas
Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic labor around the world. Since the 1980s, the newly prosperous countries of East Asia have recruited foreign household workers at a rapidly increasing rate. Many come from the Philippines and Indonesia. Pei-Chia Lan interviewed and spent time with...
Raising Global Families
Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting. Such stereotypes also fail to account for the challenges of raising children in a rapidly modernizing world, full of globalizing values. In Raising...