'Sending dollars shows feeling' - emotions and economies in Filipino migration
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This paper analyses the conceptualization of gender, relationships, and emotions that underpin 'care chains' approaches to Filipino labour migration. In a case study of long-distance intimacy and economic transfers in an extended Filipino family, I show how contextualizing migration within local understandings of emotion fractures expectations created by care chains accounts. This case instead reveals agency, diversity, and new forms of global subjectivity emerging through long-distance...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | McKay, Deirdre | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-08T22:19:52Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1745-0101 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/31745 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper analyses the conceptualization of gender, relationships, and emotions that underpin 'care chains' approaches to Filipino labour migration. In a case study of long-distance intimacy and economic transfers in an extended Filipino family, I show how contextualizing migration within local understandings of emotion fractures expectations created by care chains accounts. This case instead reveals agency, diversity, and new forms of global subjectivity emerging through long-distance emotional connections within the translocal field shaped by labour mobility. | |
dc.publisher | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group | |
dc.source | Mobilities | |
dc.subject | Keywords: gender relations; labor migration; labor mobility; Asia; Eurasia; Philippines; Southeast Asia Care chains; Emotion; Labour mobility; Philippines; Transnational migration | |
dc.title | 'Sending dollars shows feeling' - emotions and economies in Filipino migration | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 2 | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 160403 - Social and Cultural Geography | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u9008537xPUB85 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | McKay, Deirdre, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 2 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 175 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 194 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1080/17450100701381532 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-08T08:25:55Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-34547118114 | |
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