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Families apart : migrant mothers and the conflicts of labor and love / Geraldine Pratt.
Lippincott Library HD6305.F55 P73 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pratt, Geraldine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers, Filipino--Canada.
- Foreign workers, Filipino.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Social aspects.
- Mother and child.
- Immigrant families.
- Working mothers.
- Filipinos.
- Women household employees.
- Women foreign workers.
- Canada.
- Women foreign workers--Canada.
- Women household employees--Canada.
- Filipinos--Canada.
- Working mothers--Canada.
- Immigrant families--Canada.
- Mother and child--Philippines.
- Philippines--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Philippines.
- Canada--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- In a developing nation like the Philippines, many mothers provide for their children by traveling to a foreign country to care for someone else's family. 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. Families Apart shows how Filipino migrant domestic workers are caught between competing neoliberal policies of sending and receiving countries and how, rather than paying rich returns, their ambitions as migrants often result in social and economic exclusion for themselves and for their children. Through experiments with different modes of storytelling, Pratt seeks to promote a wide-ranging public discussion and debate about a massive worldwide shift in family (and nonfamily) relations of intimacy and care. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816669981
- 0816669988
- 9780816669998
- 0816669996
- OCLC:
- 759910055
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