Global Cinderellas : migrant domestics and newly rich employers in Taiwan / Pei-Chia Lan

Author:: Lan, Pei-Chia, 1970-
Published:: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2006.
Physical Description:: xiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents:

A bounded global market -- Disdained aliens, stratified others -- Jealous madams and anxious mothers -- Crossing borders and gender divides -- Cinderella with a mobile phone -- Eat, drink, masters and servants.

Subject(s):

Women household employees—Taiwan
Women—Employment—Taiwan
Women migrant labor—Philippines
Women migrant labor—Indonesia
Foreign workers, Filipino—Taiwan
Foreign workers, Indonesian—Taiwan
Filipinos—Employment—Foreign countries
Indonesians—Employment—Foreign countries
Women—Taiwan—Economic conditions
Women—Taiwan—Social conditions

ISBN:

0822337304 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822337428 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-295) and index.

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