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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/raising-global-families-global
 -parenting-and-class-inequality-taiwan/
SUMMARY:Raising Global Families: Global Parenting and Class Inequality in T
 aiwan
DESCRIPTION:\n	Book Talk\n\n	Lan Pei-Chia (Distinguished Professor of Socio
 logy\, National Taiwan University)\n	Chair: Andrew Gordon (Lee and Juliet 
 Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University\; Acting Director\,
  Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Sociology Departmen
 t\, Harvard University\n\n\n	Based on in-depth interviews with ethnic Chin
 ese parents from more than a hundred families in Taiwan and Boston\, my ne
 w book Raising Global Families examines how parents navigate transnational
  mobilities and negotiate cultural boundaries to cope with uncertainties a
 nd insecurities in the changing society and globalized world. I coined the
  term “global security strategies” to describe their childrearing prac
 tices that often lead to the unintended consequences of magnifying parenta
 l insecurity. This talk focuses on the distinct strategies of “global pa
 renting” across the class spectrum in Taiwan. The professional middle cl
 ass employ divergent educational strategies to pursue cosmopolitan parenti
 ng: some prefer international school and prioritize global competitiveness
  while some others choose Western-influenced alternative curriculums to or
 chestrate children’s natural growth. By contrast\, working-class Taiwane
 se men seek wives from China and Southeast Asia to escape the marriage squ
 eeze\, but the transnational connections of immigrant mothers are hardly r
 ecognized as a valuable cultural capital by the state and school until the
  recent “New Southbound Policy.”\n\n	About the speaker: Pei-Chia Lan 
 is Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, Director of Global Asia Research
  Center\, and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences at National
  Taiwan University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley\, a Fulbr
 ight scholar at New York University\, and a Yenching-Radcliffe fellow at H
 arvard University. Her major publications include Global Cinderellas: Migr
 ant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke 2006\, ASA Sex and 
 Gender Book Award and ICAS Book Prize) and Raising Global Families: Parent
 ing\, Immigration\, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018).
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