Selling motherhood: Gendered emotional labour, citizenly discounting, and alienation among China’s migrant domestic workers

The feminization of care migration in transnational contexts has received a great deal of attention. Scholars, however, have been slow to investigate a similar trend in intranational contexts. This article expands existing research on global care chains by examining the gendered emotional labor of migrant domestic workers pertaining to China’s intranational care chains. While the former often foregrounds “racial or ethnic discounting,” the latter is characterized by “citizenly discounting” whereby migrant domestic workers are subject to an overarching system of alienation, subordination, and exploitation owning to their second-class rural hùkŏu (household registration) status. Drawing on a participant-observation study of nannies, this article highlights how the intersection of gender and rural-urban citizenship is the key to grasping China’s migrant domestic workers’ experiences of extensive alienation at the nexus of work, family, and wider society. By delving into a particular set of political, economic, and cultural forces in the Chinese context, the article makes a distinctive contribution to a more nuanced and context-sensitive understanding of the interface of gender, emotional labor, and care migration

Enfants et familles transnationales dans la nouvelle économie mondiale : conflits aux Philippines

Les nations les plus développées du monde sont confrontées à une crise de plus en plus grave du secteur des soins aux personnes dépendantes. Alors que la demande de prise en charge a augmenté, l’offre de ces services a diminué. Il en résulte un déficit de la prise en charge des personnes dépendantes, déficit auquel les femmes venues des Philippines ont répondu en masse. Parmi les immigrés philippins, environ les deux tiers sont des femmes, et leur exode, qui a en général pour but de prendre d..

The Gender Ideological Clash in Globalization: Women, Migration, and the Modernization Building Project of the Philippines

My article interrogates the local impacts of global economic argue that the development of an export-oriented Filipino economy incorporates a gender ideological clash resulting from simultaneously encouraging and discouraging female domesticity. This clash emerges from the economic dependency of the Philippines on women s work outside the home on the one hand, and a longstanding gender ideology that continues to locate women s gender responsibilities inside the home on the other hand. The dependence of the Philippines on remittances from women s migrant domestic work magnifies this clash. My article looks closely at this gender ideological clash caused by working women s paradoxical positioning vis-à-vis the home, addresses why this clash occurs, describes its consequences for relations in the family, and, lastly, links it to a larger discussion of the status of women in globalization

Intimate Labour and Social Justice: Engaging with the Work of Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (Dispatch)

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Intimate Labors Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care

This book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor--care, domestic, and sex work--and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction / Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- Part I. Remaking the Intimate: Technology and Globalization -- 2. Technologies of Caring Labor: From Objects to Affect / Ariel Ducey -- 3. The Transmission of Care: Affective Economies and Indian Call Centers / Kalindi Vora -- 4. Foreign and Domestic: Adoption, Immigration, and Privatization / Laura Briggs -- 5. Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material / Rene Almeling -- 6. Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and Collective Work of Transgression / Jane Ward -- Part II. Creating Intimate Boundaries: Culture and Social Relations -- 7. Traveling Cultures of Servitude: Loyalty and Betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray -- 8. My Reward Is Not Money: Deep Alliances and End-of-Life Care among Mexicana Workers and Their Wards / María de la Luz Ibarra -- 9. Cultures of Flirtation: Sex and the Moral Boundaries of Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- 10. Bounded Authenticity and the Commerce of Sex / Elizabeth Bernstein -- 11. Economies of Emotion, Familiarity, Fantasy, and Desire: Emotional Labor in Ho Chi Minh City's Sex Industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Part III. Organizing Intimate Labor: Politics and Mobilization -- 12. Making Home Care: Law and Social Policy in the U.S. Welfare State / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- 13. Power, Intimacy, and Contestation: Dorothy Bolden and Domestic Worker Organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- 14. Manicuring Intimacies: Inequality and Resistance in Nail Salon Work / Miliann Kang -- 15. But Who Will Care for the Children? Organizing Child Care Providers in the Wake of Welfare Reform / Ellen Reese16. Sex and (Evacuation from) the City: The Moral and Legal Regulation of Sex Workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975-1985 / Becki Ross -- Part IV. Conclusion: Thinking Ahead -- 17. Caring Everywhere / Viviana Zelizer -- 18. More Intimate Unions / Dorothy Sue Cobble -- Bibliography -- IndexThis book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor--care, domestic, and sex work--and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

Intimate Labour and Social Justice: Engaging with the Work of Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (Dispatch)

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