AsAm Final Study guide ACTUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Care Chain/Global Care Chain A chain of caregiving that connects families across countries. One person cares
for someone else's family while another person takes over care responsibilities for
their family.
- Parreñas
Transnational Mothering When mothers provide emotional and financial support to their children while
living and working in another country
- Parreñas
Emotional Labor Managing or changing your emotions as part of your job in order to make others
feel comfortable, cared for, or happy. (disney land example)
- Parreñas
Care Work Work focused on caring for others such as childcare, eldercare, nursing, or
domestic work.
- Parreñas
, Globalization The increasing interconnectedness of countries through migration, trade,
technology, and labor markets
- Parreñas
**Feminization of Migration** The trend of women increasingly migrating independently to work, especially in
care related jobs. Parreñas argues this happened because globalization created a
demand for female labor in wealthier countries while economic pressures pushed
women from poor countries to migrate.
International division of reproductive labor The transfer of care work from wealthy women to poor migrant women, often
across national boarders
- Parreñas
Commodification of Love The idea that care, affection, and emotional support become trated like things
that can be bought through paid caregiving work
- Parreñas
Second time coming out After coming out as LGBTQ, queer Vietnamese Americans often have to navigate
revealing or explaining their sexuality again with ethnic, family, or cultural
communities.
- Masquesmay
Queer immigration adaptation The process by which queer immigrant adjust to american society while balancing
both ethnic and sexual identities
Heterogendered process The assumption that becoming an adult or adapting to society is naturally
heterosexual. Immigrant adaptioon research often assumes everyone is straight
- masquesmay
O moi A queer Vietnamese support network that provides a community for people who
feel excluded from both Vietnamese and mainstream LGBTQ spaces
- Masequesmay
Gender Binary The belief that there are only two genders adn that everyone must fit into one of
them
- Alok Vaid-Menon
Gender Policing The social pressure of punishment used to force people to conform to expected
gender norms
Alok Vaid-Menon
ANSWERS
Care Chain/Global Care Chain A chain of caregiving that connects families across countries. One person cares
for someone else's family while another person takes over care responsibilities for
their family.
- Parreñas
Transnational Mothering When mothers provide emotional and financial support to their children while
living and working in another country
- Parreñas
Emotional Labor Managing or changing your emotions as part of your job in order to make others
feel comfortable, cared for, or happy. (disney land example)
- Parreñas
Care Work Work focused on caring for others such as childcare, eldercare, nursing, or
domestic work.
- Parreñas
, Globalization The increasing interconnectedness of countries through migration, trade,
technology, and labor markets
- Parreñas
**Feminization of Migration** The trend of women increasingly migrating independently to work, especially in
care related jobs. Parreñas argues this happened because globalization created a
demand for female labor in wealthier countries while economic pressures pushed
women from poor countries to migrate.
International division of reproductive labor The transfer of care work from wealthy women to poor migrant women, often
across national boarders
- Parreñas
Commodification of Love The idea that care, affection, and emotional support become trated like things
that can be bought through paid caregiving work
- Parreñas
Second time coming out After coming out as LGBTQ, queer Vietnamese Americans often have to navigate
revealing or explaining their sexuality again with ethnic, family, or cultural
communities.
- Masquesmay
Queer immigration adaptation The process by which queer immigrant adjust to american society while balancing
both ethnic and sexual identities
Heterogendered process The assumption that becoming an adult or adapting to society is naturally
heterosexual. Immigrant adaptioon research often assumes everyone is straight
- masquesmay
O moi A queer Vietnamese support network that provides a community for people who
feel excluded from both Vietnamese and mainstream LGBTQ spaces
- Masequesmay
Gender Binary The belief that there are only two genders adn that everyone must fit into one of
them
- Alok Vaid-Menon
Gender Policing The social pressure of punishment used to force people to conform to expected
gender norms
Alok Vaid-Menon
