The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, And Taiwanese Americans (Asian American Studies Today),Used

The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, And Taiwanese Americans (Asian American Studies Today),Used

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The Resilient Self explores how international migration reshapes womens senses of themselves. ChienJuh Gu uses lifehistory interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middleclass 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 when their U.S.educated husbands found professional jobs upon graduation. Constrained by their dependent visas, these women could not work outside of the home during the initial phase of their settlement. The significant contrast of their lives before and after immigrationchanging from successful professionals to foreign housewivesgenerated feelings of boredom, loneliness, and depression. Mourning their lost careers and lacking fulfillment in homemaking, these highly educated immigrant women were forced to redefine the meaning of work and housework, which in time shaped their perceptions of themselves and others in the family, at work, and in the larger community.

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