ANTB20H3 Study Guide - Arjun Appadurai
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Week 9: the care crisis in the philippines: children and transnational families in the new global economy . Roughly two-thirds of filipino migrant workers are women and their exodus usually to fill domestic jobs that has generated tremendous social changes in the philippines. They tend to leave their own children behind to take care of other people"s kids. Many of the filipino children tend to grow in divided households under serious emotional strain. Abandoned )- and this abandonment usually leads the children to do drugs, gambling and drinking. Some journalists stated that rapes are starting to rise within manila and this is most common in families without mothers (mostly because the children of the migrant become a burden on the larger society) Care is now the country"s primary export (totalling almost billion in 1999) Another reason to why women migrate is because there are limited choices in.
