Table of Contents for

Children of Global Migration

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Gender and the Transnational Family

1.      The Global Economy of Care

2.      The Dismal View of Transnational Households

3.      Caring for the Family: Why Parents Leave the Philippines

4.      The Gap Between Migrant Fathers and Their Children

5.      The Gender Paradox: Recreating "the Family" in Women's Migration

6.      Gendered Care Expectations: Children in Mother-Away Transnational Families

7.      The Overlooked Second Generation: The Experience of Prolonged Separation in Two-Parent Migrant Families

Conclusion: The Persistence of Gender

Notes

References

Index