Abstract

As we saw in the last part of the previous chapter, the life of care workers with irregular status cannot be separated from their concern for their loved ones left at home, especially children. Immigrant care workers are often involved in forms of ‘transnational motherhood’ (Hondagneu-Sotelo and Avila, 1997) and form a ‘caregiving triangle’ connecting them with children and substitute care-takers in the homeland (Suarez-Orozco, Todorova and Louie, 2002). The ‘obligation to care’ is a salient feature of transnational families (Baldassar, 2008).KeywordsSingle MotherImmigrant WomanMigrant WomanFamily ReunificationPrevious ChapterThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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