Children of global migration
Subtitle: transnational families and gendered woes
By: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Children of alien laborers -- Philippines -- Attitudes; Parental deprivation -- Philippines; Family -- Philippines; Alien labor, Philippine -- Foreign countries; Filipinos -- Employment -- Foreign countries; Philippines -- Emigration and immigration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-207) and index
Table of contents: title: The global economy of care work; title: The dismal view of transnational households; title: Caring for the family : why parents leave the Philippines; title: The gap between migrant fathers and their children; title: The gender paradox : recreating "the family" in women's migration; title: Gendered care expectations : children in mother-away transnational families; title: The overlooked second generation : the experience of prolonged separation in two parent migrant families