Carroll D. Clark Sociology Lecture Series for 2006

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Asian-American Studies and Sociology
University of California, Davis

The Global-Local Gender Clash:
Women, Migration, and the Modernization Building Project of the Philippines

Monday, October 9, 2006
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Big XII Room, Kansas Union

Professor Rhacel Parrenas (UC Davis) will be the 2006 Clark Lecturer. Her research engages questions of global intimacies. She has published two books and is working on a third. Her first book, Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work, is a study of Filipinas working in Rome and Los Angeles; her second book, Children of Globalization: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes, focuses on the families they left behind. Her most recent work is a book in progress: Trafficked? Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Japan's Nightlife Industry. For more information on Rhacel Parrenas, please see her website.

Professor Parrenas will discuss connections between global and local spaces and processes--how is the global localized and how is the local globalized?

Cosponsored by Institute for Policy & Social Research and Hall Center for the Humanities.

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