Publication: Labour/Le Travail
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Hsiung, Ping-Chun
Article Excerpt
Pei-Chia Lan, Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Durham: Duke University Press 2006)
THIS CAREFULLY RESEARCHED and clearly executed ethnographic piece is about transgression and making boundaries in an era of international migration. Using ethnographic data, the author pursues a theoretical thread of transgression and boundary-making to weave together a geopolitical map featuring Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestics, Taiwanese middle-class professionals, immigration brokers, and the source and host states. At the macro level, Lan illustrates how national boundaries are drawn and enforced, by both source and host countries, in the midst of international migration. As she demonstrates, at the micro level, Taiwanese middle- class women professionals who contract domestic labour out to migrant domestic workers not only have to carefully map out gendered boundaries in their homes, they also make deliberate efforts to redefine culturally regulated meanings of femininity and domesticity. The domestic workers, who used to be housewives in the Philippines and Indonesia, are now maids making a living with their domestic skills in a foreign land. Therefore, they too are venturing into...
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