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Caring for Caregivers
Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building During Crisis
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University of Washington Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 3RNV5DE
EAN: 9780295753140
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Beschreibung
Migrant workers have long been called upon to sacrifice their own health to provide care in facilities and private homes throughout the United States. What draws them to such exploitative, low-wage work and how do they care for themselves. In Caring for Caregivers. , Valerie Francisco-Menchavez centers the perspectives of Filipino caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2021, illuminating their transnational experiences and their strategies and practices to help each other navigate the crumbling US healthcare system. These caregivers routinely endure arduous labor conditions, exhaustion, depression, anxiety, abuse, chronic injuries, and illness-and the COVID-19 pandemic pushed them further to the frontlines of care and risk. Despite this, they found ways to forge bonds and build networks that provided material and emotional support. Drawing on surveys, individual interviews, and caregivers' stories as told through kuwentuhan, a Philippine cultural practice of collective storytelling, this book offers an intimate examination of intergenerational care work in the Filipino American community.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2024
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 224