Book Description
This classic was re-issued to meet the continuing demand for an introductory text on the sociology of the family in the Philippine setting. The book examines family structures and values in the context of an evolving society.
Author : Belen Tan-Gatue Medina
Publisher : University of the Phillipines Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2001-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789715423014
This classic was re-issued to meet the continuing demand for an introductory text on the sociology of the family in the Philippine setting. The book examines family structures and values in the context of an evolving society.
Author : Aurora Esquivel Perez
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Families
ISBN : 9789718729014
Author : Jason DeParle
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0143111191
One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year "A remarkable book...indispensable."--The Boston Globe "A sweeping, deeply reported tale of international migration...DeParle's understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and nuanced."--The New York Times "This is epic reporting, nonfiction on a whole other level...One of the best books on immigration written in a generation."--Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted The definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. When Jason DeParle moved into the Manila slums with Tita Comodas and her family three decades ago, he never imagined his reporting on them would span three generations and turn into the defining chronicle of a new age--the age of global migration. In a monumental book that gives new meaning to "immersion journalism," DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family as they endure years of sacrifice and separation, willing themselves out of shantytown poverty into a new global middle class. At the heart of the story is Tita's daughter, Rosalie. Beating the odds, she struggles through nursing school and works her way across the Middle East until a Texas hospital fulfills her dreams with a job offer in the States. Migration is changing the world--reordering politics, economics, and cultures across the globe. With nearly 45 million immigrants in the United States, few issues are as polarizing. But if the politics of immigration is broken, immigration itself--tens of millions of people gathered from every corner of the globe--remains an underappreciated American success. Expertly combining the personal and panoramic, DeParle presents a family saga and a global phenomenon. Restarting her life in Galveston, Rosalie brings her reluctant husband and three young children with whom she has rarely lived. They must learn to become a family, even as they learn a new country. Ordinary and extraordinary at once, their journey is a twenty-first-century classic, rendered in gripping detail.
Author : Stella P. Go
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Families
ISBN :
Author : Alfred W. McCoy
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299229849
Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of the country's family-based oligarchy both derives from and contributes to a weak Philippine state. From provincial warlords to modern managers, prominent Filipino leaders have fused family, politics, and business to compromise public institutions and amass private wealth--a historic pattern that persists to the present day. Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, An Anarchy of Families explores the pervasive influence of the modern dynasties that have led the Philippines during the past century. Exemplified by the Osmeñas and Lopezes, elite Filipino families have formed a powerful oligarchy--controlling capital, dominating national politics, and often owning the media. Beyond Manila, strong men such as Ramon Durano, Ali Dimaporo, and Justiniano Montano have used "guns, goons, and gold" to accumulate wealth and power in far-flung islands and provinces. In a new preface for this revised edition, the editor shows how this pattern of oligarchic control has continued into the twenty-first century, despite dramatic socio-economic change that has supplanted the classic "three g's" of Philippine politics with the contemporary "four c's"--continuity, Chinese, criminality, and celebrity.
Author : Belen Tan-Gatue Medina
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Families
ISBN : 9789711050610
Author : Stephen M. Cherry
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813562066
Stephen M. Cherry draws upon a rich set of ethnographic and survey data, collected over a six-year period, to explore the roles that Catholicism and family play in shaping Filipino American community life. From the planning and construction of community centers, to volunteering at health fairs or protesting against abortion, this book illustrates the powerful ways these forces structure and animate not only how first-generation Filipino Americans think and feel about their community, but how they are compelled to engage it over issues deemed important to the sanctity of the family. Revealing more than intimate accounts of Filipino American lives, Cherry offers a glimpse of the often hidden but vital relationship between religion and community in the lives of new immigrants, and allows speculation on the broader impact of Filipino immigration on the nation. The Filipino American community is the second-largest immigrant community in the United States, and the Philippines is the second-largest source of Catholic immigration to this country. This ground-breaking study outlines how first-generation Filipino Americans have the potential to reshape American Catholicism and are already having an impact on American civic life through the engagement of their faith.
Author : Paz Policarpio Mendez
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN :
Author : Paz Policarpio Mendez
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Families
ISBN :
Author : Christian Family Movement
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 1981
Category :
ISBN :