Facing aliens under globalization: changing meanings of home for Taiwanese employers of foreign domestics.
This paper is concerned with changing meanings of home for Taiwanese employers of foreign domestics under globalization. Shifting sense of home occurs for Taiwanese employers as well as foreign domestics in the process of labor migration. The author argues that Taiwanese employers, facing aliens at home, have adopted various rhetorical strategies to redefine their relationships with foreign domestics and deployed diverse practices of management within their households. As foreign domestics do housework at home, Taiwanese employers also do their own "homework," struggling to understand and cope with the process of becoming and being household employers. Their "homework" is an integral part of the globalization of domestic service.
DePaul University, Department of Sociology, Chicago, IL, 60614, USA. scheng1@depaul.edu
Shu-Ju Ada
SJ
Cheng
D001290:Attitude; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D006796:Household Work; D006801:Humans; D013624:Taiwan; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000523:psychology*