Papers by Rhacel Parrenas
South Atlantic Quarterly, 2018
Journal of Workplace Rights, 2010
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2008
... Cross-National Studies of Production and Protest RHACEL SALAZAR PARRENAS University of Califo... more ... Cross-National Studies of Production and Protest RHACEL SALAZAR PARRENAS University of California, Davis [email protected] ... On The Edge of the Law: Culture, Labor, and Deviance on the South Texas Border, by Chad Richardson and Rosalva Resendiz. ...
Asian American Studies Now truly represents the enormous changes occurring in Asian American comm... more Asian American Studies Now truly represents the enormous changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world, changes that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies is defined and taught. This comprehensive anthology, arranged in four parts and featuring a stellar group of contributors, summarizes and defines the current shape of this rapidly changing field, addressing topics such as transnationalism, US imperialism, multiracial identity, racism, immigration, citizenship, ...
American Journal of Sociology, 2003
... Charlene Tung. ... Rhacel Parreñas, assistant professor of women's and Asian American st... more ... Charlene Tung. ... Rhacel Parreñas, assistant professor of women's and Asian American studies, brings her combined background in these fields to this detailed analysis of the Filipina diaspora in Rome and Los Angeles—two locales often overlooked in the Filipina migrant worker ...
Sexualities, 2010
Page 1. http://sex.sagepub.com/ Sexualities http://sex.sagepub.com/content/13/2/131 The online ve... more Page 1. http://sex.sagepub.com/ Sexualities http://sex.sagepub.com/content/13/2/131 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/1363460709359228 2010 13: 131 Sexualities Eileen Boris, Stephanie Gilmore ...
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2008
... In so doing, he conforms to the most traditional of gender scripts. Not unlike other male mig... more ... In so doing, he conforms to the most traditional of gender scripts. Not unlike other male migrants, he reduces fathering to the role of the 'good provider'. As the 'good provider', he completely depends on his stay-at-home wife to take care of the emotional needs of his children. ...
Contemporary Sociology-a Journal of Reviews, 2006
Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 2010
One feature of globalization is the growing number of temporary labour migrants, but their experi... more One feature of globalization is the growing number of temporary labour migrants, but their experience of settlement does not always fit the dominant perspective of transnational migration. Unlike transnational migrants, circular migrants tend not to be equally entrenched in home and host societies, but instead hold feelings of greater affinity for the home society. They engage in repeated short periods of work abroad, an example being migrant Filipina entertainers in Tokyo, Japan. This article describes the settlement of these circular migrants and demonstrates how it is a process of returning to the home society that entails limited integration in the host society; they are routinely segregated in time and space. Migrant Filipina entertainers start thinking about their departure almost as soon as they arrive, and their departure is marked by a carefully-planned ceremony, or sayonara party. Questioning the assumption in the literature that circular migrants will eventually become permanent residents, in this article I call for the formulation of new theoretical frameworks that better capture the qualitatively distinct experiences of circular migrants.
scrutiny has been directed at immigrant women workers. (pp. 22-23) Influenced by media distortion... more scrutiny has been directed at immigrant women workers. (pp. 22-23) Influenced by media distortions, the general public views immigrant women as bad for our economy, bad for our environment, and thus bad for our nation. (pp. 10, 22) As a 1993 Newsweek poll reported, 59 percent of respondents believed that "many immigrants wind up on welfare." (p. 28) Moreover, environmental groups including the Sierra Club have commonly advanced the claim that immigrants overburden the natural resources of the United States. (p. 32) Yet as Grace Chang persuasively argues in her book Disposable Domestics, common perceptions of immigrant women as "welfare cheats" and "resource usurpers" are erroneous at best, based on unproven popular claims and unsupported myths. If so, why does the media "breed ignorance" through such distorted images of immigrant women workers? Whose interests are served by such public rhetoric? And what benefits does society reap? Here enters Chang -writer, activist, and mother-who, by tackling these questions, challenges our common unfounded assumptions and gives us a critical perspective for viewing the plight of immigrant women workers.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].
My article interrogates the local impacts of global economic processes on the socio-cultural geog... more My article interrogates the local impacts of global economic processes on the socio-cultural geography of the Philippines. I argue that the development of an export-oriented Filipino economy incorporates a gender ideological clash resulting from simultaneously encouraging and discouraging female domesticity. This clash emerges from the economic dependency of the Philippines on women's work outside the home on the one hand, and a longstanding gender ideology that continues to locate women's gender responsibilities inside the home on the other hand. The dependence of the Philippines on remittances from women's migrant domestic work magnifies this clash. My article looks closely at this gender ideological clash caused by working women's paradoxical positioning vis-à-vis the home, addresses why this clash occurs, describes its consequences for relations in the family, and, lastly, links it to a larger discussion of the status of women in globalization.
What constitutes 'sex' and defines 'labor' has varied across time and space, we have learned over... more What constitutes 'sex' and defines 'labor' has varied across time and space, we have learned over the last 35 years through an explosion of monographs and articles in the history and sociology of sexuality and labor studies. But rarely has the new labor studies, with its attention to gender, race, and ethnicity and its consideration of unpaid as well as paid work, put sexual labors at the center of its focus. Even the rich literature on prostitution more likely has come out of women's studies than labor studies. Similarly, scholarship on sexuality focuses more on sex acts and identities than on markets, work culture, labor standards, collective action, and occupational segregation -the stuff of labor studies. The referents and literature for these fields stand apart -despite the growth of LGBTQ caucuses in the labor movement, renewed feminist debates over sex work, and the commercialization and proliferation of sexual services and unionization of exotic dancers.
One feature of globalization is the growing number of temporary labour migrants, but their experi... more One feature of globalization is the growing number of temporary labour migrants, but their experience of settlement does not always fit the dominant perspective of transnational migration. Unlike transnational migrants, circular migrants tend not to be equally entrenched in home and host societies, but instead hold feelings of greater affinity for the home society. They engage in repeated short periods of work abroad, an example being migrant Filipina entertainers in Tokyo, Japan. This article describes the settlement of these circular migrants and demonstrates how it is a process of returning to the home society that entails limited integration in the host society; they are routinely segregated in time and space. Migrant Filipina entertainers start thinking about their departure almost as soon as they arrive, and their departure is marked by a carefully-planned ceremony, or sayonara party. Questioning the assumption in the literature that circular migrants will eventually become permanent residents, in this article I call for the formulation of new theoretical frameworks that better capture the qualitatively distinct experiences of circular migrants.
In this article, I revisit my formulation of the 'international division of reproductive labour',... more In this article, I revisit my formulation of the 'international division of reproductive labour', also known as the 'care chain', and address its impacts on the study of migrant care workers. I also address future directions in the study of migrant care workers, calling attention to the contributions made in this special issue, specifically the need to focus on elderly care, different organizational arrangements of care, and the geopolitics of care.
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