Entre sistemas de protección social: inmigrantes filipinos en Europa y su (in)movilidad socio-espacial

With the aim to better understand how “care regimes” (that is, social protection systems) affect migrants’ lives, the present article draws from three separate studies on migrant Filipinas in Europe. The cases of three of these women unveil the important characteristic of the care regime in their country of origin and that in their respective receiving countries, which particularly shapes their lives. Interview data analysis suggests that insufficient care resources in the Philippines partly motivated these women’s migration as well as that of their offspring. In Europe, they experienced spatial and social class (im)mobilities due to the pro-undocumented migrant, family-focused, and transmigrant-friendly care regimes in their receiving countries, respectively France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Their encounters with the social protection systems “here” and “there” highlight their lives betwixt interacting care regimes in their social spaces.Con el objetivo de comprender mejor cómo los “regímenes de cuidado” (es decir, los sistemas de protección social) afectan la vida de los migrantes, el presente artículo se basa en tres estudios separados sobre las migrantes filipinas en Europa. Los casos de tres de estas mujeres desvelan la importante característica del régimen asistencial en su país de origen y que en sus respectivos países receptores, que en particular moldea sus vidas. El análisis de los datos de las entrevistas sugiere que los insuficientes recursos de atención en filipinas motivaron en parte la migración de estas mujeres, así como la de sus hijos. En Europa, experimentaron movilidad espacial y de clase social debido a los regímenes migratorios pro-indocumentados migrantes en sus países receptores, respectivamente, Francia, Bélgica y los Países Bajos. Sus encuentros con los sistemas de protección social “aquí” y “allí” resaltan sus vidas entre regímenes de atención interactivos en sus espacios sociales

Multiform Transmission and Belonging: Buddhist Social Spaces of Thai Migrant Women in Belgium

The Thai migration to Belgium is numerically a woman-led phenomenon, which has captured social attention for the last decades. This attention entails stereotypes about Thai migrant women as 'workers' in the intimate industry and/or 'exotic wives' of Belgian men. To challenge these stereotypes, the present paper explores the often-ignored dimension of Thai women’s sociality. Specifically, it examines the transmission dynamics occurring in their Buddhist social spaces, which shape and reinforce their sense of belonging. To do so, it draws from ethnographic fieldwork with Thai migrant women and key social actors within the Thai population in the country. Data analysis unveils that these women engage in multiform modes of transmission in their Buddhist social spaces. First, they transmit good deeds from the material world to the spiritual realm through merit-making practices and by seeking spiritual guidance in the temple. Second, they pass their socio-cultural ways of belonging to their children by engaging in different socializing activities. And third, they involve themselves in sharing religious faith, material symbols, and tastes described as part of Thai culture. Through this multiform transmission, Thai migrant women confront in subtle ways the common-held views about them at the intersection of their various identities as spouses, mothers, citizens, and Buddhist devotees

Immigration et entreprenariat

Les Philippines sont l’un des plus importants pays d’émigration au monde. On estime que plus de huit millions de Philippins, sur une population d’environ 90 millions, vivent à l’étranger (Commission on Filipinos Overseas, 2005). Les migrants philippins sont fortement représentés parmi la main-d’œuvre temporaire au Moyen-Orient et parmi les marins, tandis que des millions de migrants permanents se sont établis aux États-Unis (Asis, 2006). Ce sont les femmes qui occupent une place centrale dans..

Mobilités dans le Sud globalisé : altérités, racialisation et fabrique des identités

La fabrique de l’altérité et des identités racialisées dans les mobilités transnationales a été essentiellement saisie sous l’angle des migrations Sud-Nord, ou entre « périphéries » et « centres », mais pas suffisamment dans le cadre des mobilités au sein du Sud globalisé. De nombreux travaux sur la racialisation ont été entrepris à différentes échelles (du local au global) et différentes périodes (Gilroy 1993 ; Balibar & Wallerstein 1998 ; Grosfoguel 2004), ce qui a permis de pointer la comp..

Migration and the accentuated ambivalence of motherhood: the role of ICTs in Filipino transnational families

Abstract This article is concerned with the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on Filipina transnational mothers’ experience of motherhood, their practices of mothering and, ultimately, their identities as mothers. Drawing on ethnographic research with Filipina migrants in the UK as part of a wider study of Filipino transnational families, this article observes that, despite the digital divide and other structural inequalities, new communication technologies, such as the internet and mobile phones, allow for an empowered experience of distant mothering. Apart from a change in the practice and intensity of mothering at a distance, ICTs also have consequences for women’s maternal identities and the ways in which they negotiate their ambivalence towards work and family life. In this sense, ICTs can also be seen as solutions (even though difficult ones) to the cultural contradictions of migration and motherhood and the ‘accentuated ambivalence’ they engender. This, in turn, has consequences for the whole experience of migration, sometimes even affecting decisions about settlement and return

Family migration as a class matter

Traditionally, family migration was conceptualized as a separate form of migration from labour migration. Increasingly socio-economic criteria (labour market participation, language competence, financial resources, independence from welfare), have been applied to family migration policies in Europe, and are harder to fulfil by those with a weaker labour market position. Hence class now plays an increasingly significant role in stratifying the right to family migration. The article examines the imposition of minimum income requirements in three countries – the Netherlands, Norway and the UK – and the significance of class in its economic and cultural dimensions in meeting the requirement. For those without sufficient economic capital to meet the requirement, cultural capital may facilitate the development of coping strategies to overcome or reduce the duration of family separation. Class is not the only stratifying element: gender, age and ethnicity interact with and reinforce the effects of class

Engaged parenting, gender, and children's time use in transnational families : an assessment spanning three global regions

Funding support for this study is from Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2 (MOE2015‐T2‐1‐008); Hong Kong Research Grants Council through its General Research Fund (Project 17606815); Wellcome Trust UK (GR079946/B/06/Z and GR079946/Z/06/Z).Global circuits of migration regularly separate parents from children. How families navigate this separation has changed markedly. The sharp decline in the cost of international communication makes possible new forms of transnational parenting. In many contexts, migrants are now actively engaged parents, involved in decisions, knowledgeable of children's schooling, employment, and activities, and in some cases, even conversant face‐to‐face with children via videoconferencing. These practices, however, are not universal. We use data from surveys in 3 countries to document the frequency and variability of intensive, engaged transnational parenting in the diverse global regions of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We then ask whether the organisation of children's lives—specifically, time allocated to school homework, leisure, and household chores—varies by the degree to which migrant parents stay connected to sending homes. The gender of the migrant parent, stay‐behind caregiver, and the gender of the child emerge as explanatory factors for engaged parenting and children's time use. However, and unexpectedly, in the Philippines, migrant mothers are less likely to practice engaged parenting. In sending households, girls in two of the three countries spend more time doing household chores than boys, but parental migration does not mitigate this difference. Although we find some evidence of more traditional gender practices, we also find exceptions that suggest potentially fruitful avenues for future research.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Social Citizenship and Divorce

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Un double ancrage. Liens familiaux et insertion sociale des enfants d’immigrés philippins en France

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