Servants of Globalization : Women, Migration, and Domestic Work

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers in Rome and Los Angeles 1(22) The Dislocations of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers 23(14) The Philippines and the Outflow of Labor 37(24) The International Division of Reproductive Labor 61(19) The Transnational Family: A Postindustrial Household Structure with Preindustrial Values 80(36) Intergenerational and Gender Relations in Transnational Families 116(34) Contradictory Class Mobility: The Politics of Domestic Work in Globalization 150(47) The Dislocation of Nonbelonging: Domestic Workers in the Filipino Migrant Communities of Rome and Los Angeles 197(46) Conclusion: Servants of Globalization: Different Settings, Parallel Lives 243(14) Appendix A: Characteristics of the Samples 257(5) Appendix B: Tables 262(7) Notes 269(14) Bibliography 283(22) Index 305