An archipelago of care: Filipino migrants and global networks
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Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world's largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migrants from one rural community to work sites overseas and then home again. Focusing on the experiences of individuals, McKay interrogates current approaches to globalization, multi-sited research, subjectivity, and the village itself. She shows that rather than weakening village ties, temporary labor migration gives the village a new global dimension created in and through the relationships, imaginations, and faith of its members in its potential as a site for a better future.
Much of the contemporary crisis in coming to terms with the past may have digital origins. We can see this crisis as engineered or assembled through a new series of historical actors: memes and posts on social media and, behind them, the work of trolls and paid influencers. These actors do not travel with first-person accounts of events so much as accumulate in the digital ephemera of daily lives and are then archived as the currency of digital capitalism, saved in individual online albums, on smart phones and then republished elsewhere. Their circulation and accumulation can be strategically directed by political actors who seek to overturn established historical consensus. Tracing the trajectory of memes featuring the Philippines' President Duterte, this paper explores how digital objects have contributed to attempts to rework the history of the Martial Law era.
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In: Ethnos: journal of anthropology, Band 85, Heft 2, S. 309-326
ISSN: 1469-588X
In: Global networks: a journal of transnational affairs, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 133-150
ISSN: 1471-0374
AbstractMigrants and their transnational families document their children and child‐rearing practices on social networking sites (SNS) to enhance their social mobility. In this article, I identify a new group of migrant children, namely those sent home to their parents' countries of origin for an imagined 'good childhood'. I demonstrate that polymedia – SNS and other platforms – sustain these children and create new norms of publicness and visibility in transnational parenting. Exploring how families document child‐raising across international boundaries, I show how the trajectories of parenting relationships remain open ended. I counter the predominant focus on transnational parenting as a kind of abandonment attached to left‐behind children. Instead, I refocus the research on the opportunities polymedia give families to create and sustain intimacies, thus making the trajectories of migrant families and children increasingly dynamic. Polymedia create important shifts in global migration – a transformation that requires changes in the way scholars approach transnational families and long‐distance parenting.
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 233-239
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In: Asian and Pacific migration journal: APMJ, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 175-176
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 285-306
ISSN: 1474-0680
In the Philippines, female migration for contract domestic work transforms the local landscape. The changes in land, labour, crops and cropping patterns that are occurring may not reflect local ecology or economic opportunity as much as they represent gendered versions of new local futures, envisioned on a new global scale.
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 285-306
ISSN: 0022-4634
In: Pacific affairs, Band 70, Heft 3, S. 422-424
ISSN: 0030-851X
McKay reviews 'Modern Rice Technology and Income Distribution in Asia' edited by Christina C. David and Keijiro Otsuka and 'The World Food Problem: Tacking the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World' by Philipps Foster.
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In: South-East Asia research, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 181-196
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In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 75, Heft 3, S. 489
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 74, Heft 4, S. 622
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 71, Heft 2, S. 282
ISSN: 1715-3379