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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Pratt, Geraldine (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: Philippine Women Centre of B.C
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Enterprising women, failing children: living within the contradictions of neo(liberalism)
  • Waiting and the trauma of separation
  • Listening to mothers' stories
  • Creating new spaces of politics: Nanay: a testimonial play
  • Acting on attachments: intimate witness to state violence in the Philippines.

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