Integration and transnational practices of Filipinos in Iceland
Imelda is a fifty year old woman who moved to Iceland in the early 1990s. In the Philippines, she was a widow with three children having a difficult time making ends meet. She had a cousin living in Iceland who told her that she could arrange for her to come to work there, so Imelda left her childre...
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description | Imelda is a fifty year old woman who moved to Iceland in the early 1990s. In the Philippines, she was a widow with three children having a difficult time making ends meet. She had a cousin living in Iceland who told her that she could arrange for her to come to work there, so Imelda left her children with her sister and mother and got a job in a rural Icelandic fish plant; she lived sparingly and sent what was left of her wages back to her family in the Philippines. |
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spelling | ftopenedition:oai:revues.org:e-migrinter/2041 2025-01-16T22:30:06+00:00 Integration and transnational practices of Filipinos in Iceland Skaptadóttir, Unnur Dís Icelande 2020-04-20 http://journals.openedition.org/e-migrinter/2041 en eng UMR 7301 - Migrinter e-Migrinter info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1961-9685 urn:doi:10.4000/e-migrinter.2041 http://journals.openedition.org/e-migrinter/2041 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess travailleurs migrants transnationalisme réseaux communautaires intégration professionnelle Philippins info:eu-repo/semantics/article article 2020 ftopenedition https://doi.org/10.4000/e-migrinter.2041 2020-04-26T00:20:16Z Imelda is a fifty year old woman who moved to Iceland in the early 1990s. In the Philippines, she was a widow with three children having a difficult time making ends meet. She had a cousin living in Iceland who told her that she could arrange for her to come to work there, so Imelda left her children with her sister and mother and got a job in a rural Icelandic fish plant; she lived sparingly and sent what was left of her wages back to her family in the Philippines. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland OpenEdition e-Migrinter 5 35 46 |
spellingShingle | travailleurs migrants transnationalisme réseaux communautaires intégration professionnelle Philippins Skaptadóttir, Unnur Dís Integration and transnational practices of Filipinos in Iceland |
title | Integration and transnational practices of Filipinos in Iceland |
title_full | Integration and transnational practices of Filipinos in Iceland |
title_fullStr | Integration and transnational practices of Filipinos in Iceland |
title_full_unstemmed | Integration and transnational practices of Filipinos in Iceland |
title_short | Integration and transnational practices of Filipinos in Iceland |
title_sort | integration and transnational practices of filipinos in iceland |
topic | travailleurs migrants transnationalisme réseaux communautaires intégration professionnelle Philippins |
topic_facet | travailleurs migrants transnationalisme réseaux communautaires intégration professionnelle Philippins |
url | http://journals.openedition.org/e-migrinter/2041 |