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Author_Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
care circulation
care work
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children left behind
chosen family
community engaged research
domestic work
domestic workers
emotional dissonance
emotional strain
emotions
epistemology
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feminist qualitative methods
fictive kin
Filipino family
gender
immigrant social network
institutional ethnography
labor export
migrant activism
migrant communities
migrant families
multidirectional care
participatory action research
Philippine labor brokerage state
Philippine migration
queer kinship
social reproductive labor
social uses of new technology
technology
theater of the oppressed
transnational care
transnational communication
transnational ethnography
transnational family
transnational motherhood
undocumented migrants
Product details
- ISBN 9780252083341
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 2018
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez spent five years alongside a group of working migrant mothers. Drawing on interviews and up-close collaboration with these women, Francisco-Menchavez looks at the sacrifices, emotional and material consequences, and recasting of roles that emerge from family separation. She pays particular attention to how technologies like Facebook, Skype, and recorded video open up transformative ways of bridging distances while still supporting traditional family dynamics. As she shows, migrants also build communities of care in their host countries. These chosen families provide an essential form of mutual support. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of today's transnational family—sundered, yet inexorably linked over the distances by timeless emotions and new forms of intimacy.
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez is an assistant professor of sociology at San Francisco State University.
