The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans

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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:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0813586062

ISBN13:9780813586069

Release Date:January 2018

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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