Title: Children of global migration : transnational families and gendered woes /
Authors: Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar
Publisher: Stanford University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Children of foreign workers Philippines Attitudes.; Parental deprivation Philippines.; Families Philippines.; Foreign workers, Filipino Foreign countries.; Filipinos Employment Foreign countries; Philippines Emigration and immigration.
Contents: The global economy of care work -- The dismal view of transnational households -- Caring for the family : why parents leave the Philippines -- The gap between migrant fathers and their children -- The gender paradox : recreating "the family" in women's migration -- Gendered care expectations : children in mother-away transnational families -- The overlooked second generation : the experience of prolonged separation in two parent migrant families.