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Sociology 8th Edition by Margaret Andersen ,Howard Taylor ,Kim Logio
Edition 8ISBN: 978-1285431321Sociology 8th Edition by Margaret Andersen ,Howard Taylor ,Kim Logio
Edition 8ISBN: 978-1285431321 Exercise 1
Servants of Globalization: Who Does the Domestic Work?
Research Question: International migration is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon. Women are one of the largest groups to experience migration, often leaving poor nations to become domestic workers in wealthier nations. What are these women's experiences in the context of global stratification? This is what Rhacel Salazar parreñas wanted to know.
Research Method: parreñas studied two communities of Filipina women, one in Los Angeles and one in Rome, Italy, conducting her research through extensive interviewing with Filipina domestic workers in these two locations. She supplemented the interviews with participant observation in church settings, after-work social gatherings, and in employers' homes. The interviews were conducted in English and Tagalog-sometimes a mixture of both.
Research Results: parreñas found that Filipina domestics experienced many status inconsistencies. They were upwardly mobile in terms of their home country but were excluded from the middle-class Filipino communities in the host nation. Thus they experienced feelings of social exclusion in addition to being separated from their own families.
Conclusions and Implications: The women parreñas studied are part of a new social for transnational families- that is, families whose members live across the borders of nations. These Filipinas provide the labor for more affluent households while their own lives are disrupted by these new global forces. As global economic restructuring evolves, it may be that more and more families will take this form as they adapt to changing economic and social conditions.
Questions to Consider
Are there domestic workers in your community who provide child care and other household work for middle- and upper-class households? What is the race, ethnicity, nationality, and gender of these workers? What does this tell you about the division of labor in domestic work and its relationship to global stratification?
Research Question: International migration is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon. Women are one of the largest groups to experience migration, often leaving poor nations to become domestic workers in wealthier nations. What are these women's experiences in the context of global stratification? This is what Rhacel Salazar parreñas wanted to know.
Research Method: parreñas studied two communities of Filipina women, one in Los Angeles and one in Rome, Italy, conducting her research through extensive interviewing with Filipina domestic workers in these two locations. She supplemented the interviews with participant observation in church settings, after-work social gatherings, and in employers' homes. The interviews were conducted in English and Tagalog-sometimes a mixture of both.
Research Results: parreñas found that Filipina domestics experienced many status inconsistencies. They were upwardly mobile in terms of their home country but were excluded from the middle-class Filipino communities in the host nation. Thus they experienced feelings of social exclusion in addition to being separated from their own families.
Conclusions and Implications: The women parreñas studied are part of a new social for transnational families- that is, families whose members live across the borders of nations. These Filipinas provide the labor for more affluent households while their own lives are disrupted by these new global forces. As global economic restructuring evolves, it may be that more and more families will take this form as they adapt to changing economic and social conditions.
Questions to Consider
Are there domestic workers in your community who provide child care and other household work for middle- and upper-class households? What is the race, ethnicity, nationality, and gender of these workers? What does this tell you about the division of labor in domestic work and its relationship to global stratification?
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