Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families focuses on the (re)construction of the social lives of '1.5-generation' - migrants who spent part of their childhoods in the Philippines and subsequently moved to the different receiving countries of their parents during their school years. By paying attention to the perspectives and agency of these migrant children using the analytical lens of 'mobile childhoods', and by incorporating comparative methods into ethnographic studies of migration, this book explores how these children and young people with similar roots have dealt with challenges, constructed their sociality and crafted their sense of self in different ways. By foregrounding the contextual, relational and temporal nature of social relations and self-(re)definitions, this collection demonstrates the theoretical value of focusing on migrant children's perspectives and agency in the study of transnational families.
- ISBN10 1137515147
- ISBN13 9781137515148
- Publish Date 25 August 2015 (first published 14 January 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format eBook
- Pages 288
- Language English
- URL 10.1057/9781137515148