Gu 2019 Qs.Pdf, Chien-Juh Gu
Jun 2019
Gu 2019 Qs.Pdf, Chien-Juh Gu
Chien-Juh Gu
No abstract provided.
I Am American! Taiwanese Immigrant Women Battling Everyday Racism, Chien-Juh Gu
Jun 2019
I Am American! Taiwanese Immigrant Women Battling Everyday Racism, Chien-Juh Gu
Chien-Juh Gu
No abstract provided.
The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, And Taiwanese Americans, Chien-Juh Gu
Dec 2016
The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, And Taiwanese Americans, Chien-Juh Gu
Chien-Juh Gu
The Resilient Self examines how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women, who, in turn, negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement.
Most of the women immigrated as dependents when their U.S.-educated husbands found professional jobs upon graduation. Constrained by their dependent visas, these women could not work outside of the home during the initial phase of their settlement. The significant contrast of their lives before and after immigration—changing …
The Gendering Of Immigration Studies In The United States, Chien-Juh Gu
Jul 2015
The Gendering Of Immigration Studies In The United States, Chien-Juh Gu
Chien-Juh Gu
Over the past 4 decades, gender scholarship has significantly shaped the theories, methodologies, and core concerns in immigration studies in the United States. Before the 1970s, immigration research focused on men. Studies of immigrant women began in the 1980s, which not only challenged previous gender-blind perspectives but also highlighted women’s unique experiences. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, the study of gender and immigration focused on immigrant women’s vulnerabilities in the global economy and enhancing women’s status at home through employment in the host society. Since the 1990s, more diverse topics have emerged to involve discussion on globalization and …
Racial Glass Ceilings, Gendered Responses: Taiwanese American Professionals' Experiences Of Otherness, Chien-Juh Gu
Mar 2015
Racial Glass Ceilings, Gendered Responses: Taiwanese American Professionals' Experiences Of Otherness, Chien-Juh Gu
Chien-Juh Gu
This article examines Taiwanese American professionals’ interpretations of the glass ceiling to illuminate the manifestations of structural inequality at the micro-level of social life. Data are based on 40 in-depth interviews in the Chicago metropolitan area. Findings suggest that racial inequalities are experienced through race relations. Ethnic cultures construct relational fences along racial lines that designate the place of each group in the racial hierarchy. Although frustrated and alienated by their marginalized position, women and men use different strategies to negotiate the meaning of being an “other.” Women act confrontationally to transgress social boundaries, while men adopt acquiescent and coalitional …
Taiwan, Chien-Juh Gu, Rita Gallin
Dec 2003
Taiwan, Chien-Juh Gu, Rita Gallin
Chien-Juh Gu
No abstract provided.
Taiwan, Chien-Juh Gu, Rita Gallin
Dec 2003
Taiwan, Chien-Juh Gu, Rita Gallin
Chien-Juh Gu
No abstract provided.