03611nam 2200661 450 991079684690332120230126215942.01-5036-0591-410.1515/9781503605916(CKB)4100000004822692(MiAaPQ)EBC5406364(DE-B1597)564761(DE-B1597)9781503605916(Au-PeEL)EBL5406364(OCoLC)1035947305(OCoLC)1198930821(EXLCZ)99410000000482269220180618d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRaising global families parenting, immigration, and class in Taiwan and the US /Pei-Chia LanStanford, California :Stanford University Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (252 pages)1-5036-0207-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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, 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.Child rearingTaiwanChild rearingUnited StatesFamiliesTaiwanImmigrant familiesUnited StatesTaiwanese AmericansFamily relationshipsChinese AmericansFamily relationshipsSocial classesTaiwanSocial classesUnited StatesTaiwanEmigration and immigrationSocial aspectsUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationSocial aspectsChild rearingChild rearingFamiliesImmigrant familiesTaiwanese AmericansFamily relationships.Chinese AmericansFamily relationships.Social classesSocial classes306.850951249Lan Pei-Chia1970-1552982MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796846903321Raising global families3813194UNINA