A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century / Jason DeParle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeParle, Jason, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comodas, Rosalie.

Comodas, Rosalie--Family.

Filipinos--United States--Biography.

Filipinos.

Immigrants--United States--Biography.

Immigrants.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Foreign workers, Filipino.

United States.

Filipinos--Employment--Foreign countries.

Filipinos--Employment.

Foreign workers, Filipino--United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--21st century.

Emigration and immigration--History--21st century.

Families.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

382 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm

Other Title:

One family and migration in the 21st century

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : Viking, [2019]

Summary:

"When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas in the Manila slums thirty years ago, he didn't expect to make a lifelong friend. Nor did he expect to spend decades reporting on her family--husband, children, and siblings--as they came to embody the stunning rise of global migration. In A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family across three generations, as migration reorders economics, politics, and culture across the world. At the heart of the story is Rosalie, Tita's middle child, who escapes poverty by becoming a nurse, and lands jobs in Jeddah, Abu Dhabi and, finally, Texas--joining the record forty-four million immigrants in the United States. Migration touches every aspect of global life. It pumps billions in remittances into poor villages, fuels Western populism, powers Silicon Valley, sustains American health care, and brings one hundred languages to the Des Moines public schools. One in four children in the United States is an immigrant or the child of one. With no issue in American life so polarizing, DeParle expertly weaves between the personal and panoramic perspectives. Reunited with their children after years apart, Rosalie and her husband struggle to be parents, as their children try to find their place in a place they don't know. Ordinary and extraordinary at once, their journey is a twenty-first-century classic, rendered in gripping detail"-- Provided by publisher.

"When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas in the Manila slums thirty years ago, he didn't expect to make a lifelong friend. Nor did he expect to spend decades reporting on her family--husband, children, and siblings--as they came to embody the stunning rise of global migration. In A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family across three generations, as migration reorders economics, politics, and culture across the world. At the heart of the storyis Rosalie, Tita's middle child, who escapes poverty by becoming a nurse, and lands jobs in Jeddah, Abu Dhabi and, finally, Texas--joining the record forty-four million immigrants in the United States. Migration touches every aspect of global life. It pumps billions in remittances into poor villages, fuels Western populism, powers Silicon Valley, sustains American health care, and brings one hundred languages to the Des Moines public schools. One in four children in the United States is an immigrant or the child of one. With no issue in American life so polarizing, DeParle expertly weaves between the personal and panoramic perspectives. Reunited with their children after years apart, Rosalie and her husband struggle to be parents, as their children try tofind their place in a place they don't know. Ordinary and extraordinary at once, their journey is a twenty-first-century classic, rendered in gripping detail"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue : Finding Jesus in the slums

Masses, huddled

Migration fever

Girl gets grit

The guest worker state

The Facebook mom

The visa

Immigrants, again

Hard landing

Just like a family

The good nurse

Ruffled feathers

Inferring America

Moral hazards

Second-generation ampersands

Cruise ship calamity

The Filipino cul-de-sac

Epilogue : complete.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-367) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: DeParle, Jason, author. Good provider is one who leaves

ISBN:

9780670785926

067078592X

OCLC:

1076512354