SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Selective Reduction, Surrogacy, Transnationalism
29 Nov 2018
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Chapter 19, fox, guida man from hong kong to canada: immigration and the changing. Family lives of middle-class women from hong kong the immigration experiences of middle-class chinese women from hong kong. Under or unemployed because their education credentials not recognized in canada. If they had a job, they had a triple-burden of paid work, house work, and child-care: prior to 1990s, upwards social mobility. Some immigrant women in the study did have positive experiences such as more time with their husbands. Lack of business connection in canada in comparison to hong kong. Diversity in: household structure, living arrangements, relationship type and status, sexual relationships, and childbearing and parenting. Childbearing is no longer determined by gender, age, sexual orientation, or relationship status. Globalization and advances in science and technology have also transformed families. Three additional topics: new reproductive technologies, the detainment of children who arrive to canada and the us as illegal immigrants, transnational families and transnational mothering.
