Serving the Household and the Nation: Filipina Domestics and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan

by Shu-Ju Ada Cheng, Ada Cheng, Shu-Ju

Serving the Household and the Nation is an absorbing sociological study of the globalization of domestic service. Using the case of Filipina domestics in Taiwan, Cheng examines how nationalist politics shape the experience of migrant women under the context of globalization.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739111728
• ISBN13: 9780739111727
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"