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Intersubjective vulnerabilities in the global reproductive systems: Filipino migrant women and their families in Europe and beyond

par Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion
Référence Dialectical anthropology, 49, 3, page (403-418)
Publication Publié, 2025-09-01

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Previous studies have unveiled the vulnerabilities that migrant women incur as they provide paid and unpaid reproductive labour in the private and public realms of their receiving and origin countries. Since each country has its reproductive system, and each reproductive system is linked to another system through transnational processes such as globalisation and migration, the intersubjective dimension is central to understanding how migrant women’s vulnerabilities unfold. To grasp this dimension, this article delves into the global reproductive systems encompassing the social reproduction regimes of the countries in which migrant women are enmeshed. Drawing from empirical data of two qualitative studies conducted separately in the periods 2005–2008 and 2016–2017, it examines illustrative stories of a Filipino migrant mother in France and a Filipino marriage migrant in The Netherlands. The analysis of these stories shows that Filipino migrant women’s vulnerabilities and difficulties are not individual but related to the vulnerabilities of other persons in their lives, who are care receivers and/or providers and who are caught, like them, in the global reproductive systems.