2003
DENISE SPITZER, ANNE NEUFELD, MARGARET HARRISON, KAREN HUGHE, and MIRIAM STEWART
Migration often requires the renegotiation of familial and gender roles as immigrants encounter potentially competing values and demands. Employing ethnographic methods and including in-depth inter-viewing and participant observation, the authors explore the experiences of29 South Asian and Chinese Canadian female family caregivers. Care-giving was central to their role as women and members of their ethnocultural community. The women were often engaged in paid labor that compressed the time avail-able to fulfill their duties as caregivers. Women's role in the transmission of cultural values that serve to shore up the boundaries of their ethnic community did not allow for significant renegotiation of their care-giving responsibilities despite disrupted family networks and increased demands. These care-giving arrangements are more costly to women in Canada than in their countries of origin.
Gender and Society
17
2
267-286
Sage Publications, Inc
Immigrant women; caregiving; transnationalism; Canada; Asian women
Occupations in services - Domestic work, Home child care providers, and Home support workers, housekeepers and related occupations
Researchers
China, Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan
Gender and sexuality studies
English