Children of global migration : transnational families and gendered woes

Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar

Children of global migration : transnational families and gendered woes / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas - xi, 212 pages

Originally published: Stanford, CA : Standford University Press, ©2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-207) and index.

The global economy of care The dismal view of transnational households Caring for the family : why parent 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 generations : the experience of prolonged separation in two-parent migrant families

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Children of alien laborers--Attitudes--Philippines
Parental deprivation--Philippines
Family--Philippines
Filipinos--Employment--Foreign countries

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