Whose culture has capital?: Class, culture, migration and mothering

by Bin Wu

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In no previous generation have so many educated Chinese women with young children immigrated to western countries. Whereas most of the existing research literature in this field tends to study Chinese immigrants in general, this book focuses on a group of skilled female migrant mothers in New Zealand. It aims at understanding the dilemmas and ambiguities particularly concerning skilled female migration: although they belonged to a privileged group in their native land, these women become members of a visible minority in the new country. Middle-class professionals in their birth country, they experience downward social mobility when taking on unskilled jobs in their adopted land; besides having to shoulder heavier domestic workloads as the traditional support for childcare is no longer available in New Zealand. Centering on their mothering practices, this book provides detailed descriptions of how mothers deploy various strategies to maximise the benefits for their children's education amidst changes and readjustments after migration.
  • ISBN13 9783034306058
  • Publish Date 9 February 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CH
  • Imprint Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften