Families Apart : Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love /

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In a developing nation like the Philippines, many mothers provide for their families by traveling to a foreign country to care for someone else's. Families Apart focuses on Filipino overseas workers in Canada to reveal what such arrangements mean for families on both sides of the global divide....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pratt, Geraldine (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Philippine Women Centre of B.C
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Working mothers.
Women household employees.
Women foreign workers.
Mother and child.
Immigrant families.
Foreign workers, Filipino.
Filipinos.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Mere et enfant > Philippines.
Familles immigrantes > Canada.
Meres au travail > Canada.
Philippins > Canada.
Employees de maison > Canada.
Travailleuses etrangeres > Canada.
Travailleurs etrangers philippins > Canada.
Mother and child > Philippines.
Immigrant families > Canada.
Working mothers > Canada.
Filipinos > Canada.
Women household employees > Canada.
Women foreign workers > Canada.
Foreign workers, Filipino > Canada.
Philippines.
Canada.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Philippines > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In a developing nation like the Philippines, many mothers provide for their families by traveling to a foreign country to care for someone else's. Families Apart focuses on Filipino overseas workers in Canada to reveal what such arrangements mean for families on both sides of the global divide. The outcome of Geraldine Pratt's collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre of British Columbia, this study documents the difficulties of family separation and the problems that children have when they reunite with their mothers in Vancouver. Aimed at those who have lived this experience.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780816680092

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