Mothers, wives and… massage parlour girls? : how China’s “study mothers” negotiate social boundaries and stereotypes in Singapore

• Main Author: Yang, Ashley Yuhong
• Other Authors: Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44128
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since the early 2000s, many “study mothers” from mainland China (peidu mama) have undertaken the transnational “project of education” by accompanying their children to study in Singapore (Yeoh and Huang 2005). Coinciding with this period was the Singapore government’s launch of the “Global Schoolhou...