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Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan

Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan

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ISBN10: 0822337428
ISBN13: 9780822337423
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 3 2006
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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 dozens of Filipina and Indonesian domestics working in and around Taipei as well as many of their Taiwanese employers. On the basis of the vivid ethnographic detail she collected, Lan provides a nuanced look at how boundaries between worker and employer are maintained and negotiated in private households. She also sheds light on the fate of the workers, global Cinderellas who seek an escape from poverty at home only to find themselves treated as disposable labor abroad.

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