“I Didn’t Come Here to do Housework”: 'Relocating “Swedish” practices and ideologies in the context of the global division of labour: the case of expatriate households in Singapore'
On the basis of 13 in-depth interviews with Swedish women and one month of ethnographic work in the Swedish community in Singapore in 2009, this article examines how Swedish women, travelling from Sweden to Singapore as “expatriate wives” in the wake of their Swedish husbands, navigate gendered and...
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| Language: | English |
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Helsinki University Press
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
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| Online Access: | https://journal-njmr.org/articles/64 |