SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transnationalism
6 Oct 2016
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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 experience of middle-class chinese women from hong. In hong kong these women had lots of support to help them juggle their careers and caregiving. Allowed greater time for socialization and leisure. Upon immigration to canada these immigrant women were met with much more intensely privatized caregiving (expensive and prohibitive childcare) These were very highly educated women & their unemployment lead them into housework. Women assumed most of the unpaid labour and cultural norms prevented the men from doing more. Men had not done domestic work back in hong kong, women were not asking for help. If you wanted to be seen as a good housewife, you will not ask your husband for help. Earlier research overgeneralized the immigrant experience (i. e. viewing it as a linear process of adaptation, the immigrant family as monolithic unit)
