At Home but Not at Home: Filipina Narratives of Ambivalent Returns

Constable, Nicole

doi:10.1525/can.1999.14.2.203

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“…There may remain incessant demands from wider networks of relatives and friends which they can never fulfil. Another factor may be increasing ambivalence about the Philippines compared to their new country of residence (Constable, 1999). Elsewhere we have argued that migrants face an extreme form of ambivalence as they are torn between their love for their children and the respect and value they get from their work (Madianou, 2012;Madianou and Miller, 2011).…”

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Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children

Madianou

Miller

2011

New Media & Society

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The Philippines is an intensely migrant society with an annual migration of one million people, leading to over a tenth of the population working abroad. Many of these emigrants are mothers who often have children left behind. Family separation is now recognized as one of the social costs of migration affecting the global south. Relationships within such transnational families depend on long--distance communication and there is an increasing optimism among Filipino government agencies and telecommunications companies about the consequences of mobile phones for transnational families. This article draws on comparative research with UK--based Filipina migrants -mainly domestic workers and nurses -and their left--behind children in the Philippines. Our methodology allowed us to directly compare the experience of mothers and their children. The article concludes that while mothers feel empowered that the phone has allowed them to partially reconstruct their role as parents, their children are significantly more ambivalent about the consequences of transnational communication.

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Section: The Mothers' Perspectivementioning

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Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children

Madianou

Miller

2011

New Media & Society

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“…The re-adjustment experiences of return migrants in their home countries have received some attention in the sociological literature. Many studies have highlighted the sense of disappointment, isolation and feelings of alienation and not-belonging experienced by return migrants (Constable 1999;Long and Oxfeld 2004;Christou 2006;Cerase 1970Cerase , 1974. In the Irish context, two studies are of particular interests: that of Gmelch (1986, 1987) and of McGrath (1991).…”

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The psychic costs of migration: evidence from Irish return migrants

Barrett

Mosca

2012

J Popul Econ

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Within the economics literature, the 'psychic costs' of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since Sjaastad (J Polit Econ 70:80-93, 1962). However, the existence of such costs has rarely been investigated in empirical papers. In this paper, we look at the psychic costs of migration by using alcohol problems as an indicator. Rather than comparing immigrants and natives, we look at the native-born in a single country and compare those who have lived away for a period of their lives and those who have not. We use data from the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing which is a large, nationally representative sample of older Irish adults. We find that men who lived away are more likely to have suffered from alcohol problems than men who stayed. For women, we again see a higher incidence of alcohol problems for short-term migrants. However, long-term female migrants are less likely to have suffered from alcohol problems. For these women, it seems that migration provided psychic benefits, and this is consistent with findings from other research which showed how migration provided economic independence to this group. The results remain when we adjust for endogeneity and when we use propensity score matching methods.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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“…It is this social and cultural dimension that is inseparable from a sense of home and cannot be compensated in the case of displacement by the development of a mine (Constable 1999). As one village shopkeeper questioned, 'say they will give us a new house […] but how will they give us our Samaj that we have built here?'…”

Section: 'In a New Place I Will Have To Live With My Head Down': Anximentioning

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Land, Place and Resistance to Displacement in Phulbari

Nuremowla¹

2016

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At Home but Not at Home: Filipina Narratives of Ambivalent Returns

Cited by 162 publications

References 15 publications

Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children

Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children

The psychic costs of migration: evidence from Irish return migrants

Land, Place and Resistance to Displacement in Phulbari

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