{"product_id":"families-apart-geraldine-pratt-9780816669998","title":"Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a developing nation like the Philippines, many mothers provide for their families by traveling to a foreign country to care for someone else's. \u003ci\u003eFamilies Apart \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on Filipino overseas workers in Canada to reveal what such arrangements mean for families on both sides of the global divide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe outcome of Geraldine Pratt's collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre of British Columbia, this study documents the difficulties of family separation and the problems that children have when they reunite with their mothers in Vancouver. Aimed at those who have lived this experience, those who directly benefit from it, and those who simply stand by and watch, \u003ci\u003eFamilies Apart\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Filipino migrant domestic workers--often mothers themselves--are caught between competing neoliberal policies of sending and receiving countries and how, rather than paying rich returns, their ambitions as migrants often result in social and economic exclusion for themselves and for their children. This argument takes shape as an open-ended series of encounters, moving between a singular academic voice and the \"we\" of various research collaborations, between Vancouver and the Philippines, and between genres of \"evidence-based\" social scientific research, personal testimony, theatrical performance, and nonfictional narrative writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough these experiments with different modes of storytelling, Pratt seeks to transform frameworks of perception, to create and collect sympathetic witnesses--in short, to promote a wide-ranging public discussion and debate about a massive worldwide shift in family (and nonfamily) relations of intimacy and care. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geraldine Pratt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816669996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816669998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012 pg. 70","brand":"Geraldine Pratt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120334663935,"sku":"9780816669998","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_418b3b2c-4258-4204-a4b1-7809d31d07ba.jpg?v=1687413779","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/families-apart-geraldine-pratt-9780816669998","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}