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Author Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar.

Title Servants of globalization : women, migration and domestic work / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Description xi, 309 pages ; 23 cm
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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Foreign workers, Filipino.
Women household employees.
Filipinos -- Employment -- Foreign countries.
Women -- Employment -- Foreign countries.
SUBJECT Philippines -- Emigration and immigration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106993 -- Government policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005269
Author Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar.
LC no. 00049267
ISBN 0804739218
0804739226 paperback