Raising Global Families

Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US

Pei-Chia Lan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0590-9 (ISBN)

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Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting. Such stereotypes also fail to account for the challenges of raising children in a rapidly modernizing world, full of globalizing values. In Raising Global Families, Pei-Chia Lan examines how ethnic Chinese parents in Taiwan and the United States negotiate cultural differences and class inequality to raise children in the contexts of globalization and immigration. She draws on a uniquely comparative, multisited research model with four groups of parents: middle-class and working-class parents in Taiwan, and middle-class and working-class Chinese immigrants in the Boston area. Despite sharing a similar ethnic cultural background, these parents develop class-specific, context-sensitive strategies for arranging their children's education, care, and discipline, and for coping with uncertainties provoked by their changing surroundings. Lan's cross-Pacific comparison demonstrates that class inequality permeates the fabric of family life, even as it takes shape in different ways across national contexts.

Pei-Chia Lan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University. She is the author of Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (2006), which won the ASA Distinguished Book Award.

Introduction: Anxious Parents in Global Times

1. Transpacific Flows of Ideas and People

2. Taiwanese Middle Class: Raising Global Children

3. Taiwanese Working Class: Affirming Parental Legitimacy

4. Immigrant Middle Class: Raising Confident Children

5. Immigrant Working Class: Reframing Family Dynamics

Conclusion: In Search of Security

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2018
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5036-0590-6 / 1503605906
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-0590-9 / 9781503605909
Zustand	Neuware