Filipina Migrants and Globalization
by
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2008
Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines, and Filipina migrant entertainers in Tokyo, Parreñas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that maintain women’s domesticity in migration, as well...