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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Bibliographic Details
Published in:e-Migrinter
Main Author: Skaptadóttir, Unnur Dís
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: UMR 7301 - Migrinter 2020
Subjects:
travailleurs migrants
transnationalisme
réseaux communautaires
intégration professionnelle
Philippins
genre
hisphilso
Iceland
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/e-migrinter/2041
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Summary: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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