1. CHƯƠNG 1: GLOBALIZATION AND GENDERED MIGRATION: FOUNDATIONS FOR THE STUDY ON VIETNAMESE ACCOMPANYING WOMEN IN THE U.
1.1. Rationale and Research Questions
1.2. Gender and Migration
1.3. Globalization and Gendered Migration
1.4. Visa Regimes and Gendered Migration
1.5. Race, Class and Gendered Migration
1.6. Impacts of Gendered Migration on Transnational Migrants
1.7. Changes in Gender Relations
1.8. Identity Negotiation among Dependent Spouse Visa Holders
1.9. Vietnamese Transnational Migration to the U.
1.10. Theory of Intersectionality
1.11. Gendered Geographies of Power
1.12. Michel Foucault’s Theories of Governmentality and Power/Knowledge
1.13. Other Critical Theories
1.14. Methodology and Procedures
1.15. Overview of the Study
2. CHƯƠNG 2: GLOBALIZATION AND THE GENDERING OF THE POST-1990 VIETNAMESE SKILLED MIGRATION TO THE U.
2.1. An Overview of Vietnamese Migration to the U. prior to the 1990s
2.2. Vietnam’s Post-war Development Policies
2.3. “Đổi Mới” Policy
2.4. Vietnam’s Post-1995 Education Policies
2.5. Vietnam’s Gendered Demand for Overseas-trained Highly Skilled Labor
2.6. Gendered Demand for Highly Skilled Migrant Labor
2.7. Gender Ideologies and Practices in Vietnam
3. CHƯƠNG 3: CONSTRUCTING DEPENDENCE: STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL BARRIERS TO VIETNAMESE ACCOMPANYING WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN THE U.
3.1. Visa Regime and the Housewifization of Vietnamese Accompanying Women in the U.
3.2. The Racial, Class, and Gender Biases in the U. Immigration Policies toward Highly Skilled Temporary Migrants
3.3. Governmentality, State Power, and the U.
3.4. Other Structural Barriers to Vietnamese Accompanying Women’s Employment
3.4.1. Complicated, Lengthy, and Costly Immigration Processes
3.4.2. Bureaucracy and their Ignorance of Vietnamese Culture
3.4.3. The Devaluation of Migrants’ Foreign Credentials
3.4.4. Employers’ Implicit Biases in Hiring process
3.4.5. Wage Discrimination and Other Discriminatory Practices
4. CHƯƠNG 4: FOR A HEALTHY MARRIAGE: VIETNAMESE ACCOMPANYING WOMEN’S NEGOTIATION OF GENDER ROLES AND FAMILIAL EXPECTATIONS IN THE U.
4.1. Negotiating Gender Roles and Spousal Power Relations
4.2. Gender Roles in Middle-class Families in Vietnam
4.3. Gender Roles and Spousal Relations among Vietnamese Nonimmigrant Married Couples in the U.
4.4. Handling In-law Tensions
4.5. Dealing with Monetary Expectations from Natal Families
4.6. Assessing Marital Satisfaction and Family Well-being
5. CHƯƠNG 5: SEARCHING FOR A COMMUNITY OF BELONGING: THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF VIETNAMESE NONIMMIGRANT WOMEN IN THE U.
5.1. Theories on Social (Dis)integration of Immigrants
5.2. The (Dis)integration of Vietnamese Accompanying Women in the U.
5.3. Vietnamese Accompanying Women’s Cultural, Social, and Economic Integration
5.4. Vietnamese Skilled Migrants’ (Dis)integration into Vietnamese American Communities
5.5. The Emergence of Imagined Vietnamese Communities in the U.
6. CHƯƠNG 6: NAVIGATING GLOBALIZATION: VIETNAMESE ACCOMPANYING WOMEN’S STRUGGLES AGAINST SUBORDINATION IN THE U.
6.1. Vietnamese Accompanying Women’s Struggles against Subordination in the U.
6.2. Definitions of Power and Empowerment
6.3. The (Dis)empowering Effects of Globalization
6.4. Regaining their Lost Confidence and Social Independence: Vietnamese Accompanying Women and their Journeys to Obtain White-collar Jobs
6.5. “Globalization from Below”: Vietnamese Accompanying Women and their Engagement in Globalization Processes
ABSTRACT
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAILS OF THE RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS
VISA RESTRICTIONS FOR ACCOMPANYING SPOUSES OF VIETNAMESE TEMPORARY SKILLED MIGRANTS IN THE U.
ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS, AND VIETNAMESE TERMS
QUESTIONS FOR OPEN-ENDED INTERVIEWS
