▪ Abstract This chapter reviews the literature on media and globalization. It develops the
argument that this literature foregrounds a problem that, ironically, it also largely disavows …

Global economic restructuring has not only intensified the shift in reproductive work from the
household to the market, but it has been predicated on the international mobility of labour to …

Following its initial publication in 1997, Global Diasporas: An Introduction was central to the
emergence of diaspora studies and quickly established itself as the leading textbook in the …

Servants of Globalization offers a groundbreaking study of migrant Filipino domestic workers
who leave their own families behind to do the caretaking work of the global economy. Since …

This anthology examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of
women worldwide. In a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an …

Global economic crisis and the implications of global environmental change have led
academics and policy-makers to consider how 'development'in all parts of the world should …

Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and
women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South …

An increasing number of Filipina migrants are mothering their children from a distance. In
order to provide for their families, they must leave them behind in the Philippines and take …

Migrant Filipina women are employed as domestic workers in more than 130 countries. 1
They constitute a substantial proportion of labor migrants in various nations in Europe and …

A medida que la familia" artesanal" se transforma en una familia postindustrial, las tareas
que antes se llevaban a cabo en el interior del núcleo familiar se confían cada vez más a …