A Time to Submit and a Time to Resist: The Family Caregiving Struggle of New Immigrant Women from Southeast Asia
Resource
臺大社會工作學刊, 29, 149-198
Journal
臺大社會工作學刊
Journal Issue
29
Pages
149-198
Date Issued
2014-06
Date
2014-06
Author(s)
Cheng, S.Y.
Yu, H.Y.
Abstract
This study investigates the following topics: (1) the experiences as care-givers as new immigrant women from Southeast Asia, (2) the factors influencing these women to submit or resist the role of a caregiver, and (3) the strate-gies that these women used to negotiate their role. After interviewing 16 new immigrant women from Southeast Asia, four findings were conceptualized. First, these women crossed the ocean to take on the caregiver’s role. Second, the factors influencing the women’s acceptance of the role were: the gender frame within the “One Family” mentality, the dynamics of the women’s rela-tions with their in-laws, pragmatic concerns for their situation at home, and the women’s acceptance of the family cultureof their motherland. While the tac-tics these women used to resist the role were: laying out acceptable terms and threshold and an-eye-for-an-eye approach after discrimination. As for the strategies of the women to negotiate their roles, they were: power struggle in the domestic arena, communicating the cultural difference, and seeking for replacement caregivers. For these women,the dynamics of their family care-giving experiences were best described as “a time to submit and a time to re-sist.” The study also discusses how the combination of patriarchal oppression, family caregiving needs, immigration acts, and family care policies forced
these immigrant women to become familycaregivers. The resulting family was found to be responsible for further reinforcing patriarchal oppression. The study concludes with some practical and policy-related recommendations.
Subjects
父權壓迫
東南亞新移民女性
抵抗
家庭照顧者
順從
patriarchal oppression
new immigrant women from Southeast
Asian
Asian
resistance
family caregiver
submission
SDGs
Type
journal article
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