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Lingering caregiver-child relations across borders: Filipino migrant youths in Europe and their stay-behind carers in the Philippines

par Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion ;Nagasaka, Itaru
Référence Zero-a-seis, 23, 43, page (889-914)
Publication Publié, 2021-03-13

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The Filipino parental migration results in many children “left behind” under the care of kin, but subsequent family reunification may trigger emotional adjustments in the child-caregiver dyad. Drawing from ethnographic fieldworks in France, Italy and the Philippines, this paper aims to shed light on these adjustments. Examining the case of 1.5-generation migrants in France and Italy and their stay-behind caregivers, this paper uncovers the mutable, flexible nature of child fosterage in Filipino transnational families and the interlinked emotional difficulties of caregivers, children and parents. Despite these, caregiver-child relation perdures across borders at the same time as 1.5-generation migrants acknowledge the efforts of their parents and caregivers.