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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pratt, Geraldine (Author)
Corporate Author: Philippine Women Centre of B.C
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780816680092

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