Overview
- Examines how the translation of national and/or ethnic cultural heritage has impacted experiences and identity construction
- Explores how gender relations within families been reformulated in diasporic space
- Analyses intersecting factors affecting East Asian migrant women’s experiences of motherhood, employment and gender
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
How do Chinese, Japanese and Korean mothers in Britain make sense of their motherhood and employment? What are the intersecting factors that shape these women’s identities, experiences and stories? Contributing further to the continuing discourse and development of intersectionality, this book examines East Asian migrant women’s stories of motherhood, employment and gender relations by deploying interlocking categories that go beyond the meta axes of race, gender and class, including factors such as husbands’ ethnicities and the locality of their settlement. Through this, Lim argues for more detailed and context specific analytical categories of intersectionality, enabling a more nuanced understanding of migrant women’s stories and identities.
East Asian Mothers in Britain will appeal to students and scholars across a range of disciplines and with an interest in identity, gender, ethnicity, class, migration and intersectionality.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hyun-Joo Lim is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Bournemouth University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: East Asian Mothers in Britain
Book Subtitle: An Intersectional Exploration of Motherhood and Employment
Authors: Hyun-Joo Lim
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75635-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75634-9Published: 23 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09284-9Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75635-6Published: 12 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 259
Topics: Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Ethnicity Studies