TY - JOUR
T1 - Live-in foreign domestic workers and their impact on Hong Kong's middle class families
AU - CHAN, Hau Nung, Annie
PY - 2005/1/1
Y1 - 2005/1/1
N2 - This paper discusses the impact of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) on parental roles and family dynamics of Hong Kong's middle class families. The increase in married women's labor force participation in Hong Kong has led to a greater demand for childcare, which has been filled by FDWs. Based on interviews with 15 dual-earner couples in middle class nuclear families employing FDWs, how FDWs affect the mother's gender role and family dynamics is discussed. Boundary work is used by parents in their daily interaction with their children and their FDWs so as to reconcile the perceived indispensability of these workers on the one hand, and the challenges they pose to the definition of parenthood on the other.
AB - This paper discusses the impact of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) on parental roles and family dynamics of Hong Kong's middle class families. The increase in married women's labor force participation in Hong Kong has led to a greater demand for childcare, which has been filled by FDWs. Based on interviews with 15 dual-earner couples in middle class nuclear families employing FDWs, how FDWs affect the mother's gender role and family dynamics is discussed. Boundary work is used by parents in their daily interaction with their children and their FDWs so as to reconcile the perceived indispensability of these workers on the one hand, and the challenges they pose to the definition of parenthood on the other.
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/2318
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=27844464935&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10834-005-7847-4
DO - 10.1007/s10834-005-7847-4
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 1058-0476
VL - 26
SP - 509
EP - 528
JO - Journal of Family and Economic Issues
JF - Journal of Family and Economic Issues
IS - 4
ER -