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Title: WHOSE CULTURE HAS CAPITAL?
CLASS, CULTURE, MIGRATION AND MOTHERING
By: Bin Wu
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 3034306059
ISBN 13: 9783034306058
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Publisher: PETER LANG AG, INTERNATIONALER VERLAG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN
Pub. date: 9 February, 2011
Pages: 205
Description: Focuses on a group of skilled female migrant mothers in New Zealand. This book aims at understanding the dilemmas and ambiguities particularly concerning skilled female migration: although they belonged to a privileged group in their native land, these women become members of a visible minority in the new country.
Synopsis: In no previous generation have so many educated Chinese women with young children immigrated to western countries. Whereas most of the existing research literature in this field tends to study Chinese immigrants in general, this book focuses on a group of skilled female migrant mothers in New Zealand. It aims at understanding the dilemmas and ambiguities particularly concerning skilled female migration: although they belonged to a privileged group in their native land, these women become members of a visible minority in the new country. Middle-class professionals in their birth country, they experience downward social mobility when taking on unskilled jobs in their adopted land; besides having to shoulder heavier domestic workloads as the traditional support for childcare is no longer available in New Zealand. Centering on their mothering practices, this book provides detailed descriptions of how mothers deploy various strategies to maximise the benefits for their children's education amidst changes and readjustments after migration.
Publication: Switzerland
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Returns: Returnable
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