Pei-Chia Lan (Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 2000) is Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University. Her fields of specialty include gender, work and migration. She is the author of Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke 2006), which won the 2007 Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association and the 2007 ICAS Book Prize: Best Study in Social Science from the International Convention of Asian Scholars.
what amazed me most is that, as a qualified dissertation, it contains almost not a single MALE!!! i felt so comfortable reading it and decided it as a rule for my dissertation 10 years after...wow, a world of all women is so fascinating @v@
This book successfully discusses the author’s ethnographic study on global labour movements and its effects on the inequality and self-identity of migrant domestic workers and their employers in Taiwan. It is extremely engaging, well-written and readable.
Hence, it is strongly recommended for anyone with an interest in international labour migration, or students and scholars of Domestic Labour, Globalisation, Asian Studies, Sociology and Women’s studies.
去台湾的旅行中读完,确实街头巷尾能看到中介们打的广告 本来以为是class related跟宏观,读完发现是gender roles, work-home, stigma,和微观的流动 removed one star since the writing is so...academic. 透过书都能随时带入不得不在discussion和future implication不断总结重复的自己。。
I enjoyed Global Cinderellas because most of the literature I’ve read in respect to domestic labor has been limited to the United States. Within the United States context, domestic labor is highly raced with stereotypes running through very much like in East Asia. The main difference between these two locations is the shift in the US from women of color from within its borders to women of color from aboard. The use of boundary theory is particularly interesting particularly when discussing the creation of spaces by the laborers inside and outside the workplace. However, there could have been more discussion of the construction of space by the laborers inside the workplace, specifically in the home of their employers.
One of the interesting aspects Pei-Chia Lan found was the use of technology and cell phones to promote friendships and relationship between the migrant laborers. In The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization, by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas found that the Filipina laborers used their cell phones to communicate with each other, but other with their families back in the Philippines. However, there was no discussion of this in Global Cinderellas.