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UNINA9910466820403321 |
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Lan Pei-Chia <1970-> |
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Raising global families : parenting, immigration, and class in Taiwan and the US / / Pei-Chia Lan |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Child rearing - Taiwan |
Child rearing - United States |
Families - Taiwan |
Immigrant families - United States |
Taiwanese Americans - Family relationships |
Chinese Americans - Family relationships |
Social classes - Taiwan |
Social classes - United States |
Electronic books. |
Taiwan Emigration and immigration Social aspects |
United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : anxious parents in global times -- Trans-Pacific flows of ideas and people -- Taiwanese middle class : raising global children -- Taiwanese working class : affirming parental legitimacy -- Immigrant middle class : raising confident children -- Immigrant working class : reframing family dynamics -- Conclusion : in search of security. |
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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 |
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differences and class inequality to raise children in the contexts of globalization and immigration. She draws on a uniquely comparative, multi-sited 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. |
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