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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Main Author: Skaptadóttir, Unnur Dís
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: UMR 7301 - Migrinter 2020
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/e-migrinter/2041
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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 fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu: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 urn:doi:10.4000/e-migrinter.2041 http://journals.openedition.org/e-migrinter/2041 undefined travailleurs migrants transnationalisme réseaux communautaires intégration professionnelle Philippins genre hisphilso Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2020 fttriple https://doi.org/10.4000/e-migrinter.2041 2023-01-22T19:03:57Z 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 Unknown e-Migrinter 5 35 46
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transnationalisme
réseaux communautaires
intégration professionnelle
Philippins
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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
genre
hisphilso
topic_facet travailleurs migrants
transnationalisme
réseaux communautaires
intégration professionnelle
Philippins
genre
hisphilso
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