{"product_id":"raising-global-families-parenting-immigration-and-class-in-taiwan-and-the-us-hardback-9781503602076","title":"Raising Global Families; Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Hardback) 9781503602076","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRaising Global Families\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eParenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePei-Chia Lan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503602076\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 July 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.586 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Pei-Chia Lan makes an extraordinary contribution to contemporary scholarship on parenting strategies by demonstrating how ethnic culture and social class interact within four different social groups spanning two geographic regions. As she does, she illuminates complex processes such as globalization and transnationalism, making this a superb book for classroom use.\"—Margaret K. Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eParenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eRaising Global Families\u003c\/i\u003e dispels the myth of the tiger mom, telling a compelling story of parenting that is less about unique cultures than about the forces of globalization. Through thoughtful and meticulous analysis of ethnographic data in transnational contexts, Pei-Chia Lan demonstrates how Chinese parents in Taiwan and the United States cope with their intensified feelings of ambivalence and insecurity and how this surfaces in childrearing. This study advances the understanding of parenting beyond the family and local milieus.\"—Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles \"Lan's insightful and skillfully-written book offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Taiwanese families in Taiwan and the United States who endeavor to raise upwardly-mobile children. This is a must-read for all who seek to understand family, class, and mobility in the age of global capitalism.\"—Carolyn Chen, University of California, Berkeley \"This book is a worthy study not only for \"global families\" but also for all families.Highly recommended.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e \"Lan's methodological design is ambitious and analytically innovative; it is cross-national, cross-class, and multi-method...\u003ci\u003eGlobal Families\u003c\/i\u003e offers an invaluable take on parenting practices...Lan makes a convincing case that future studies of immigrant parenting strategies in the United States must consider these cross-national, cross-class ties in their analyses.\"––Tiffany J. Huang and Jennifer Lee, \u003ci\u003eSocial Forces\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eRaising Global Families\u003c\/i\u003e is engaging, and Lan's analysis is detailed and nuanced. The readability and rigorousness of this book make it attractive not only to students and scholars with interests in Migration, Globalization, Pedagogy, Class and Culture, as well as Chinese studies, but also to nonacademic readership, such as policy makers and others who are interested in fostering their children's global competitiveness.\"––Yu-chin Tseng, \u003ci\u003eChina Review International\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eRaising Global Families\u003c\/i\u003e dismantles the belief in a blanket Asian parenting culture, showing instead how the practice of parenting varies across social classes and national contexts and transforms over time.\"—Yn Lê Espiritu, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e \"This is a must-read book for scholars of education, immigration, globalisation and class stratification, as well as any parents, students or educational practitioners who are interested in learning more about unequal childhood and parents' struggles to raise a global child in a transnational context.\"—Siqi Tu, \u003ci\u003eThe Sociological Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublic discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting. Such stereotypes also fail to account for the challenges of raising children in a rapidly modernizing world, full of globalizing values. In \u003ci\u003eRaising Global Families\u003c\/i\u003e, Pei-Chia Lan examines how ethnic Chinese parents in Taiwan and the United States negotiate cultural differences and class inequality to raise children in the contexts of globalization and immigration. She draws on a uniquely comparative, multisited research model with four groups of parents: middle-class and working-class parents in Taiwan, and middle-class and working-class Chinese immigrants in the Boston area. Despite sharing a similar ethnic cultural background, these parents develop class-specific, context-sensitive strategies for arranging their children's education, care, and discipline, and for coping with uncertainties provoked by their changing surroundings. Lan's cross-Pacific comparison demonstrates that class inequality permeates the fabric of family life, even as it takes shape in different ways across national contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Anxious Parents in Global Times\u003cbr\u003e  1. Transpacific Flows of Ideas and People\u003cbr\u003e  2. Taiwanese Middle Class: Raising Global Children\u003cbr\u003e  3. Taiwanese Working Class: Affirming Parental Legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e  4. Immigrant Middle Class: Raising Confident Children\u003cbr\u003e  5. Immigrant Working Class: Reframing Family Dynamics\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: In Search of Security\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610582675736,"sku":"9781503602076","price":63.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/raising-global-families-parenting-immigration-and-class-in-taiwan-and-the-us-hardback-9781503602076","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}