By Chien-Juh Gu
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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