Exploring resilience processes of Filipino migrant domestic workers: A multisystemic approach

Abstract

This study identified resilience processes at the individual, family, and community levels among Filipino migrant domestic workers (MDWs). Resilience processes highlight strengths and resources that can enhance positive adaptation to problems that affect this vulnerable migrant group. Data came from focus groups and key informant interviews involving 27 MDWs and 7 key informants. Data was analyzed using thematic analysis and organized according to the socioecological model. Results revealed 7 resilience processes. Financial coping, health management, and spirituality were found across levels. Companionship and emotional support are transacted within family and community levels, whereas expanding knowledge and support occurs at individual and community levels. MDWs and their families prioritize each family member, whereas the community provides legal support. Resilience processes exist across ecological levels. However, individual resilience processes are insufficient, thus necessitating collective agency through familial and community resilience processes and building social structures that facilitate resilience.

The health status and related interventions for children left behind due to parental migration in the Philippines: A scoping review

“…These outcomes may be mediated by parent-child relationship maintained through frequent use of digital communication. 48 Maintaining intimacy through virtual communication plays a critical role in ameliorating children's negative emotions. 49 Likewise, gratitude can be attributed to the modern-day hero narrative unique to OFWs, wherein children have expressed deep appreciation for the sacrifices their parents make in order to finance their education and support their livelihoods.…”

“…Out of 50 included sources, 15 (30¢0%) discussed48 distinct interventions that explicitly supported the physical and mental health outcomes of LBC. The largest proportion of interventions were delivered by local NGOs, whereby 10 distinct groups provided most of the educational and psychosocial support interventions identified.…”