The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese by Chien-Juh Gu

By Chien-Juh Gu

The Resilient Self explores how foreign migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu makes use of life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to demonstrate how immigration creates gendered paintings and kinfolk contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American girls, who, in flip, negotiate and face up to the social and mental results of the methods of immigration and settlement. 

lots of the girls immigrated as dependents while their U.S.-educated husbands came across expert jobs upon commencement. limited by means of their established visas, those girls couldn't paintings open air of the house through the preliminary section in their payment. the numerous distinction in their lives ahead of and after immigration—changing from profitable execs to international housewives—generated emotions of boredom, loneliness, and melancholy. Mourning their misplaced careers and missing achievement in homemaking, those hugely proficient immigrant ladies have been compelled to redefine the that means of labor and housekeeping, which in time formed their perceptions of themselves and others within the kinfolk, at paintings, and within the better group.  
 

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