Geraldine Pratt is professor of geography at the University of British Columbia.

"In this moving and insightful analysis of Filipino domestic labor in Canada, Geraldine Pratt opens up the intricate webs binding transnational migration and family life within the worldwide expansion of temporary migrant care workers. Pratt moves seamlessly between theory and everyday life as she tells stories that are at once intimate and global, emotional and analytical, mundane and politically significant. I couldn’t put it down." -Melissa W. Wright, Penn State University"Families Apart is a remarkable and elegant achievement demonstrating beautifully the power of theorizing ‘the concrete,’ the inseparability of ‘the global and the intimate,’ and the all too rarely achieved potential of activist-scholarship to reach further and more deeply than either practice alone. It is compelling in every regard." -Cindi Katz, City University of New York

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction. Collaborating with the Philippine Women Centre: Cultivating a Debate1. Enterprising Women, Failing Children: Living within the Contradictions of Neo(Liberalism)2. Waiting and the Trauma of Separation3. Listening to Mothers’ Stories4. Creating New Spaces of Politics: Nanay: A Testimonial Play5. Acting on Attachments: Intimate Witness to State Violence in the PhilippinesConclusion: Research into ActionAppendixesNotesBibliographyIndex

Geraldine Pratt is professor of geography at the University of British Columbia.

"In this moving and insightful analysis of Filipino domestic labor in Canada, Geraldine Pratt opens up the intricate webs binding transnational migration and family life within the worldwide expansion of temporary migrant care workers. Pratt moves seamlessly between theory and everyday life as she tells stories that are at once intimate and global, emotional and analytical, mundane and politically significant. I couldn’t put it down." -Melissa W. Wright, Penn State University"Families Apart is a remarkable and elegant achievement demonstrating beautifully the power of theorizing ‘the concrete,’ the inseparability of ‘the global and the intimate,’ and the all too rarely achieved potential of activist-scholarship to reach further and more deeply than either practice alone. It is compelling in every regard." -Cindi Katz, City University of New York

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction. Collaborating with the Philippine Women Centre: Cultivating a Debate1. Enterprising Women, Failing Children: Living within the Contradictions of Neo(Liberalism)2. Waiting and the Trauma of Separation3. Listening to Mothers’ Stories4. Creating New Spaces of Politics: Nanay: A Testimonial Play5. Acting on Attachments: Intimate Witness to State Violence in the PhilippinesConclusion: Research into ActionAppendixesNotesBibliographyIndex

Geraldine Pratt is professor of geography at the University of British Columbia.

"In this moving and insightful analysis of Filipino domestic labor in Canada, Geraldine Pratt opens up the intricate webs binding transnational migration and family life within the worldwide expansion of temporary migrant care workers. Pratt moves seamlessly between theory and everyday life as she tells stories that are at once intimate and global, emotional and analytical, mundane and politically significant. I couldn’t put it down." -Melissa W. Wright, Penn State University"Families Apart is a remarkable and elegant achievement demonstrating beautifully the power of theorizing ‘the concrete,’ the inseparability of ‘the global and the intimate,’ and the all too rarely achieved potential of activist-scholarship to reach further and more deeply than either practice alone. It is compelling in every regard." -Cindi Katz, City University of New York

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction. Collaborating with the Philippine Women Centre: Cultivating a Debate1. Enterprising Women, Failing Children: Living within the Contradictions of Neo(Liberalism)2. Waiting and the Trauma of Separation3. Listening to Mothers’ Stories4. Creating New Spaces of Politics: Nanay: A Testimonial Play5. Acting on Attachments: Intimate Witness to State Violence in the PhilippinesConclusion: Research into ActionAppendixesNotesBibliographyIndex