Login

 


 
     
Limit to available items
Record:   Prev Next
book jacket
BOOK
Title A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century / Jason DeParle
Imprint [New York, N.Y.] : Viking, [2019]

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  305.8 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript 400 pages
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
"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 Provider Is One Who Leaves, DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family across three generations, as migration reorders economics, politics, and culture across the world. At the heart of the story is Rosalie, Tita's middle child, who escapes poverty by becoming a nurse, and lands jobs in Jeddah, Abu Dhabi and, finally, Texas--joining the record forty-four million immigrants in the United States. Migration touches every aspect of global life. It pumps billions in remittances into poor villages, fuels Western populism, powers Silicon Valley, sustains American health care, and brings one hundred languages to the Des Moines public schools. One in four children in the United States is an immigrant or the child of one. With no issue in American life so polarizing, DeParle expertly weaves between the personal and panoramic perspectives. Reunited with their children after years apart, Rosalie and her husband struggle to be parents, as their children try to find their place in a place they don't know. Ordinary and extraordinary at once, their journey is a twenty-first-century classic, rendered in gripping detail"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Comodas, Rosalie
Comodas, Rosalie -- Family
Filipinos -- United States -- Biography
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
Filipinos -- Employment -- Foreign countries
Foreign workers, Filipino -- United States
Emigration and immigration -- History -- 21st century
Flyktingar
Immigranter
Arbetskraftsinvandring
Förenta staterna
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 21st century
Biographies.
Classmark 305.899/21
Mr
ISBN/ISSN 9780670785926 (hardcover)
067078592X
Record:   Prev Next