{"product_id":"tender-labour-jennifer-e-shaw-9780774871310","title":"Tender Labour: Migrant Care Work, Filipina\/O Young People, and Family Life Across Borders","description":"\u003cb\u003eSpotlights the lives of children whose mothers left their homes in the Philippines to work in Canada. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e To meet demand in Canada, more and more women are migrating from the Philippines to become domestic workers. What happens to family left behind? \u003ci\u003eTender Labour\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the experiences of young people as they navigate precarity in all its forms when their mothers work elsewhere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jennifer Shaw conducts nuanced research with youth who have been separated from and later reunited with their mothers in Canada, incorporating their own voices through poems, song lyrics, and photographs. She focuses on how their tender labor--the work they perform within their families--emerges not only from necessity but also from the stresses and dreams that tug at the threads of kinship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The role of young people in familial migrations reveals the hard consequences of the capitalist extraction of transnational labor. Nonetheless, despite childhoods shaped by economic inequality and racialized disparity, Shaw discovers that these Filipina\/o young people keep their hope of a good life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer E. Shaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0774871318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780774871310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jennifer E. Shaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46927757082879,"sku":"9780774871310","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4039ddac-e86e-4700-8d03-1e90767a3a15.jpg?v=1749372869","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tender-labour-jennifer-e-shaw-9780774871310","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}