Children of global migration : transnational families and gendered woes /

Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar.

Children of global migration : transnational families and gendered woes / Rhacel Salazar Parreñias. - Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006 - xi, 212 pages 23 cm.

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

The global economy of care -- 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.

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Children of alien laborers
Family--Philippines
Filipinos--Philippines.
Parental deprivation--Philippines.

HQ 792.P5 / .P248 2006