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A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century /

When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas in the Manila slums thirty years ago, he didn't expect to make a lifelong friend. Nor did he expect to spend decades reporting on her family, husband, children and siblings, as they came to embody the stunning rise of global migration. In A Good Pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeParle, Jason (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, [2019]
Subjects:
Comodas, Rosalie.
Comodas, Rosalie > Family.
Filipinos > United States > Biography.
Immigrants > United States > Biography.
Filipinos > Employment > Foreign countries.
Foreign workers, Filipino > United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 21st century.
Emigration and immigration > History > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Finding Jesus in the slums
  • Masses, huddled
  • Migration fever
  • Girl gets grit
  • The guest worker state
  • The Facebook mom
  • The visa
  • Immigrants, again
  • Hard landing
  • Just like a family
  • The good nurse
  • Ruffled feathers
  • Inferring America
  • Moral hazards
  • Second-generation ampersands
  • Cruise ship calamity
  • The Filipino cul-de-sac
  • Epilogue : complete.