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Book

Families Apart

Date

2015

Authors

Geraldine Pratt

Abstract

In a developing nation like the Philippines, many mothers provide for their families by traveling to a foreign country to care for someone else’s. Families Apart focuses on Filipino overseas workers in Canada to reveal what such arrangements mean for families, documenting the difficulties of family separation and the problems that children have when reuniting with their mothers in Vancouver.

Number of pages

263

Place published

Minneapolis, London

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Keywords

Caregivers, Family

Economic sectors

Occupations in services - Domestic work, Home child care providers, and Home support workers, housekeepers and related occupations

Target groups

Public awareness

Geographical focuses

Alberta, Philippines, and National relevance

Spheres of activity

Cultural and ethnic studies and Social work

Languages

English