Gender, migration, and the work of care : a multi-scalar approach to the Pacific Rim /: a multi-scalar approach to the Pacific Rim. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sonya Michel, Ito Peng, editors.
• Editors: Michel, Sonya, 1942-; Peng, Ito
• Contents: Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I Caring Around the Pacific Rim; 1 Introduction; How We Started; Intersecting Care and Migration Research; The Organization of the Book; Notes; References; 2 Intersections of Migrant Care Work: An Overview; The Big Picture; Micro-Layers and Intersections; Institutional Intersections at the Meso Level; Intersecting Crises in the Macro; Strategic Considerations; Notes; References; Part II Everyday Realities and Cultures of Care. 3 Immigrant Women and Home-Based Elder Care in Oakland, California's ChinatownTheoretical Framework; Research Design; In-Home Personal Care Work in California's Oakland Chinatown; The Work of In-Home Personal Care; The Fractured Employment Relationship; Working Conditions; Improving Conditions Through the Union; Taking Action Through Community-Based Organizations; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 Home Care for Elders in China's Rural-Urban Dualism: Care Workers' Fractured Experiences; About the Study; Research Site; Data Collection; Participants. Dualism in the Care System: Moral Duty and Paid WorkDualism in Care Worker Identity: The Demeaned and the Caring; Care as Menial Work for the "Provincials"; Care as Valuable Work for a Caring Person; Dualism in Compensation: The Entitled and the Deprived; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5 Caring for Your Children: How Mexican Immigrant Mothers Experience Care and the Ideals of Motherhood; Gender and Migration; Transnational Care in Context; Child Care and Immigration; Methods; Sara; Sara, Agustín, and Felipe; Sara and Marin; Sara and Nina; Caring for Them All; Conclusion; Note; References. Part III All (Global) Politics are Local6 Responses to Abuse Against Migrant Domestic Workers: A Multi-scalar Comparison of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai; Research Design; Who Are the MDWs?; Main Source of Abuses Against MDWs; Multi-Scalar and Regime Differences and Their Possible Effects; The Rights of Foreign Caregivers in Taiwan; The Rights of Foreign Domestic Helpers/Workers in Hong Kong; Maids, Nurses, and Home Workers in Shanghai; Concluding Discussion: The Remaining Obstacles; Notes; References; 7 Out of Kilter: Changing Care, Migration and Employment Regimes in Australia. Reshaping Migration PathwaysReshaping Care: Markets and Individualization; Aging and Aged Care; Child Care; The Care Workforce; Public Discourses around Migration and Care; Child Care; Aged Care; Conclusion; Notes; References; 8 Closing the Open Door? Canada's Changing Policy for Migrant Caregivers; Canada's Live-In Caregiver Policy; Problems and Processes of Change: A Brief Moment in Time; Requirements to Live with the Employer; Centrality of Employer; Temporary Legal Status, Precarity and Challenges of Liminality; Back to the Past?; Two Pathways; Conclusion; Notes; References.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages)
• Subjects: 331.4/813620425; Women -- Pacific Area -- Social conditions; Women caregivers -- Pacific Area; Women immigrants -- Pacific Area; Women household employees -- Pacific Area; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; Women caregivers; Women household employees; Women immigrants; Women -- Social conditions; Pacific Area; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319550862; 3319550861
• Related ISBNs: 9783319550855; 3319550853
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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