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Author Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie, 1983- author.

Title The labor of care : Filipina migrants and transnational families in the digital age / Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Asian American experience
Asian American experience.
Contents Multidirectional Care in Transnational Families -- Skype Mothers and Facebook Children -- Communities of Care -- Caring Even if It Hurts
Summary "For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez spent five years alongside a group of working migrant mothers. Drawing on interviews and up-close collaboration with these women, Francisco-Menchavez looks at the sacrifices, emotional and material consequences, and recasting of roles that emerge from family separation. She pays particular attention to how technologies like Facebook, Skype, and recorded video open up transformative ways of bridging distances while still supporting traditional family dynamics. As she shows, migrants also build communities of care in their host countries. These chosen families provide an essential form of mutual support. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of today's transnational family--sundered, yet inexorably linked over the distances by timeless emotions and new forms of intimacy"-- Provided by publisher
"The nature of transnational families is such that separated members, both abroad and home, consistently craft strategies of care through technology and multidirectional care work to cope with the difficult sacrifice of migration. This book is about the affliction of migration and globalization and the durability of families through these circumstances. It provides accounts of the impact of global care chains on the families of migrant women from the Philippines and the emergence of new forms of intimacies and care work as the women navigate and negotiate the emotional and material consequences of family separation and the resulting shifts in family gender dynamics. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Francisco presents the self-care perspective of women of color feminism by showing the multidirectional care work that occurs with migration and investigates the changes in family that come with migration and circumstances where migrants are separated from their families because of legal or economic reasons. Anchored in the experiences and lives of Filipino migrants and their families in the Philippines, it also describes the lives of many families from the Global South who are separated from one another. Francisco highlights the way in which new technologies have become central to the reconfiguration of family and how Facebook, Skype, and recorded videos and pictures are important components in the lives of migrant mothers and their families left behind. Francisco analyzes the formation of extended communities of migrant mothers and the fictive kinships that women apart from families of origin create abroad in their mother work abroad"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Transborder ethnic groups -- Philippines
Women immigrants -- Philippines
Mothers -- Philippines
Digital communications -- Philippines
Internet -- Social aspects -- Philippines
Transnationalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Digital communications
Internet -- Social aspects
Mothers
Transborder ethnic groups
Transnationalism
Women immigrants
Philippines
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718285
ISBN 9780252050398
0252050398