Publications

Publication details [#51806]

Shi, Yu. 2008. Chinese Immigrant Women Workers: Everyday Forms of Resistance and “Coagulate Politics”. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 5 (4) : 363–382.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | immigrant | social constraint | women's language | worker

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper argues that Chinese working-class immigrant women in the San Francisco Bay Area develop unique strategies to covertly resist and pragmatically adapt to social constraints impeding them to develop assertive attitudes and defiant behaviors, and to undertake collective actions.