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'Left-Behind' to 'Get-Ahead'? Youth Futures in Localities
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de los Reyes, Elizer Jay Y. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
This paper explores how left behind children (LBCs) of emigrant women experience and make use of familial and educational investment on 'getting ahead' in thinking about their futures. On the one hand, these efforts of Filipino families figure in the imaginary of transnational migration as the ticket to better life. On the other hand, it surfaces…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Aspiration, Rural Population
Confronting Crisis. A Comparative Study of Household Responses to Poverty and Vulnerability in Four Poor Urban Communities. Environmentally Sustainable Development Studies and Monographs Series No. 8.
Moser, Caroline O. N. – 1996
This volume presents the main findings of a comparative study of four poor urban communities in countries experiencing economic difficulties during the late 1980s: Chawama (Zambia), Cisne Dos (Ecuador), Commonwealth (the Philippines), and Angyalfold (Hungary). The study extended a longitudinal community panel study begun in Ecuador by using a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Labor, Community Characteristics, Comparative Analysis
Parental Verbal Abuse: Culture-Specific Coping Behavior of College Students in the Philippines
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Esteban, Esther J. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2006
In a larger research study that investigated the conceptualizations, experiences, and coping behaviors of 294 male and female college students exposed to parental verbal abuse, this paper identifies and measures seven culture-specific coping behaviors in the Philippine setting, as experienced by 143 highly abused students identified in the study.…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Verbal Communication, Coping, College Students