WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar :
“Raising Global Families: Comparing Middle-class Parenting in Taiwan and Immigrant America” (November 15)
講演者 / Speaker
LAN, Pei-Chia （Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan University）
日 時 / Date & Time
Friday, 15 November 2019, 10:30 – 12:00
会 場 / Venue
Room 315, 3F, Building 19, Waseda University
主 旨 / Outline
“Raising Global Families: Comparing Middle-class Parenting in Taiwan and Immigrant America”
Public 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. My recent book Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018) 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. This talk compares the professional middle class in Taiwan and their immigrant counterparts in Boston to examine how parents enact different childrearing strategies to negotiate cultural boundaries and mobilize educational resources across borders. The cross-Pacific comparison demonstrates distinct strategies of concerted cultivation, through which parents try to mitigate their anxieties and perceived risks in local society and global economy.
言 語 / Language
English
対 象 / Prospected Audience
Faculty and staff members of a university, grad students, undergraduates, the general public
主 催 / Organizer
Institute of Asian Migrations, Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University
申込み / Registration
Free of charge. Please come to the event venue directly.
