The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans
(Part of the Asian American Studies Today Series)
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The Resilient Self explores how international migration re-shapes women's senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women, who, in turn, negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement. Most of the women immigrated as dependents...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813586054
ISBN13:9780813586052
Release Date:January 2018
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.3" x 8.5"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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