Wife or Worker Asian Women & Migration

Wife or Worker? Asian Women & Migration By Nicola Piper
2003 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0742523772 | PDF | 14 MB
This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either _mail-order_ brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship and how migrants for marriage become workers, the authors present these modern Asian women in their multidimensional roles as wives, workers, mothers, and citizens.