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Hardcover The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans Book

ISBN: 0813586062

ISBN13: 9780813586069

The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans

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...

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