Between Intimacy and Intolerance: Greek Cypriot Children's Encounters with Asian Domestic Workers

Autor/in	Spyrou, Spyros
Titel	Between Intimacy and Intolerance: Greek Cypriot Children's Encounters with Asian Domestic Workers
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 16 (2009) 2, S.155-173 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568209104399
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Elementary School Students; Student Attitudes; Females; Service Occupations; Family Environment; Power Structure; Social Class; Human Geography; Labeling (of Persons); Differences; Identification; Children; Race; Nationalism; Concept Formation; Interpersonal Relationship; Intimacy; Self Concept; Stranger Reactions; Cyprus; Philippines; Sri Lanka + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Weibliches Geschlecht; Dienstleistungsberuf; Familienmilieu; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Humangeografie; Labeling-Ansatz; Unterscheiden; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Rasse; Abstammung; Nationalismus; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Intimität; Selbstkonzept; Fremdenprüfung; Zypern; Philippinen; Ceylon
Abstract	This article explores how Greek Cypriot elementary school children construct their identities in relation to Sri Lankan and Filipino women who come to Cyprus as domestic workers. The article focuses primarily on the views of children whose families employ these women; however, the views of children whose families do not employ domestic workers are also explored to illustrate how these women are popularly constructed in children's imaginations and in the absence of direct daily interaction with them. The study reveals that children access different cultural discourses and construct identities that are often ambivalent and contradictory and are revealing of new forms of nationalism and racism. For the children whose families employ domestic workers, the home becomes an arena for renegotiating their status as children in their interactions with these women. Thus, the encounter between Self and Other becomes critical to understanding reconstituted definitions of childhood and adulthood. (Contains 6 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10