Author: Maria W.L. Chee

Publisher: Routledge New York & London

Year: 2005

Call Number: E184.T35C515

Introduction: This book focuses on transnational families divided between the United States and Taiwan.By transnational families the author refer to split household arrangement where one spouse lives with the child(ren) in one country while the other spouse lives in another.What happens to non-working class women and their husbands when the wife and children migrate to the country of origin and send “remittances”to support them?At both macro and micro levels, this project studies the above contemporary phenomenon that is widespread in several Pacific Rim countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.