Full Description
Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families focuses on the lived experiences of '1.5-generation' migrants with similar 'roots' (the Philippines), traversing different 'routes' (receiving countries). By shedding light on the diversified paths of their migratory lives, it revisits the relationships between mobility, sociality and identity.
Contents
1. Introduction; Itaru Nagasaka; Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot PART I: UNDERSTANDING CHILDHOODS AND MOBILITIES 2. Conceptualizing Childhoods in Transnational Families: The 'Mobile Childhoods' Lens; Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot; Itaru Nagasaka 3. Migration Trends of Filipino Children; Itaru Nagasaka PART II: FAMILY AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THEIR TEMPORALITY 4. Migration, Familial Challenges and Scholastic Success: Mobilities Experiences of 1.5-Generation Filipinos in France; Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot 5. Immigrating into a Segregated Social Space: The Case of 1.5-generation Filipinos in Italy; Itaru Nagasaka 6. Japan as a Land of Settlement or a Stepping Stone for 1.5-generation Filipinos; Sachi Takahata; Megumi Hara PART III: SENSE-MAKING AND SELF-(RE)CONSTRUCTIONS 7. Identity Construction of Migrant Children and Representation of Family: The 1.5-Generation Filipino Youth in California, USA; Koki Seki 8. Children on the Move: 1.5-Generation Filipinos in Australia Across the Generations; Raul Pertierra 9. When Mobile Motherhoods and Mobile Childhoods Converge: The Case of Filipino Youth and Their Transmigrant Mothers in Toronto, Canada; Chiho Ogaya 10. Suspended Mobilities: Japanese-Filipino Children, Family Regimes, and Postcolonial Plurality; Nobue Suzuki 11. Conclusion: children in family migration, family in children's migration; Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot; Itaru Nagasaka
