Families Apart Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love

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, documenting the difficulties of family...

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Hlavní autoři: Pratt, Geraldine, Philippine Women Centre of B.C.
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 2012
Univ. of Minnesota Press
Vydání:NED - New edition
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Arbeitsmigranten
Asia
Canada
Canada > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Computer algorithms
Computer programming
Congresses
Emigration and immigration
Familiensoziologie
Filipinos
Filipinos > Canada
Foreign workers, Philippine
Foreign workers, Philippine > Canada
Globalization
Graph theory
Hauspersonal
HISTORY
Immigrant families
Immigrant families > Canada
Kanada
Labour
Labour migration
Love
Migrant workers
Mother and child
Mother and child > Philippines
Mothers
Mutterschutz
Parenthood
Parenting
Philippinen
Philippines
Philippines > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Social aspects
Southeast Asia
Soziale Lage
Weibliche Arbeitskräfte
Women foreign workers
Women foreign workers > Canada
Women household employees
Women household employees > Canada
Working mothers
Working mothers > Canada
ISBN:0816669988, 9780816669981, 9780816669998, 0816669996
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Shrnutí: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, documenting the difficulties of family separation and the problems that children have when reuniting with their mothers in Vancouver.
Bibliografie:Bibliography: p. 221-237
Includes index
"This book is based on a series of collaborations: with members of the Philippine Women Centre (PWC) of BC ..."--Acknowledgement
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ISBN:0816669988
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