Families apart
Subtitle: migrant mothers and the conflicts of labor and love
By: Geraldine Pratt, in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre of British Columbia
Contributors: Philippine Women Centre of B.C.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780816669981; 9780816669998
Subjects: Social aspects; Women household employees; Filipinos; Working mothers; Immigrant families; Philippine Foreign workers; Women foreign workers; Emigration and immigration; Mother and child
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enterprising women, failing children: living within the contradictions of neo(liberalism); title: Waiting and the trauma of separation; title: Listening to mothers' stories; title: Creating new spaces of politics: Nanay: a testimonial play; title: Acting on attachments: intimate witness to state violence in the Philippines.