Parrenas Intergenerational and Gender Relations in Transnational Families

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April 02, 2019 Koko rated it it was astonishing

The affiliate "Gendered Intendance Expectations" has been a real and intense eye opener on the dichotomy of expectations betwixt migrant fathers and mothers within a Filipino context that even I, someone with plenty of experience on the subject field of Filipino migration, was not expecting. Rodney'southward story, in item, is stuck in my head, but more than disappointing is how it isn't the first case of its kind that I've heard of. Parreñas' discovery that there has been a level of desensitization on the hardships The chapter "Gendered Care Expectations" has been a existent and intense eye opener on the dichotomy of expectations between migrant fathers and mothers within a Filipino context that even I, someone with plenty of experience on the subject area of Filipino migration, was non expecting. Rodney'southward story, in particular, is stuck in my head, but more than disappointing is how it isn't the first case of its kind that I've heard of. Parreñas' discovery that there has been a level of desensitization on the hardships migrant parents face because of the normalization of transnational families in the Philippines was so jarring just so truthful. I didn't plan on writing whatsoever of this, the book was just such an astonishing read that I couldn't help myself. I especially beloved Parreñas holistic approach to the application of gender within the migrant experience as a whole: both in terms of how it dictates the job market available, and how that demand inevitably affects the Filipino family who has to give up its matriarch in order to survive.

The excerpts of her interviews with the children left behind by their mothers in the Philippines? When she asks them why they view that what their female parent gives them is not enough? Their inability to completely put into words that sense of lacking, the jealousy that they have, that experience of loss.... haunting and real. The assessment on the outdated gender roles and expectations assigned to mother and fathers is something I've besides lamented a lot before virtually Filipino culture.

Definitely looking frontward to reading more of Parreñas' piece of work on this subject and others similar to it.

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October 23, 2020 Valleri rated it it was amazing

This incredibly blunt ethnography exposes the nasty, barbarous predatory actions of the global Northward upon the global South where those dominant countries profit from the exploitation of cheap labor at the expense of leaving those impoverished nations struggling to survive in low-wage jobs with the only option to migrate to more wealthy nations like the U.South. to earn income where these migrant workers are often treated like piffling improve than garbage fifty-fifty as they take on the lesser jobs Americans wo This incredibly edgeless ethnography exposes the nasty, fell predatory actions of the global Northward upon the global Due south where those dominant countries profit from the exploitation of cheap labor at the expense of leaving those impoverished nations struggling to survive in depression-wage jobs with the only option to migrate to more wealthy nations like the U.S. to earn income where these migrant workers are often treated like little better than garbage fifty-fifty every bit they have on the lesser jobs Americans would rather not perform. ...more

Mar 21, 2017 Hailey rated it really liked it

Repetitive but very interesting. Read for Families class.

Sep 03, 2007 Andrea rated information technology really liked it

not as applicable to the bug i am dealing with of family and marriage in the global migration context but useful nevertheless