Together but apart: Filipino transnational families and caring from afar
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Title
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Together but apart: Filipino transnational families and caring from afar
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:ea082feef5ab:11308
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identifier
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11698
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Creator
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Francisco, Valerie,
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Contributor
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Carolina Bank-Munoz | Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
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Date
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2012
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Individual & family studies | Asian American studies | Womens studies | Hispanic American studies | Care | Domestic workers | Filipino | Filipino Migrants | Migrant Mother | Transnational Families
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Abstract
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For this dissertation, I conducted multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork for three years in New York City with Filipino domestic workers and their families in Manila, Philippines. This study makes three interventions to the scholarship on transnationalism, family and care by suggesting the model of "multidirectionality of care" to understand the reorganization of providers, definitions, and forms of care within families separated by migration. First, I prioritize both biological and fictive family members left behind as providers of care in a transnational family. Second, rapidly developing computer technology changes definition of presence and of care migrant mothers and families left behind participate in. Third, form of care expands as members of transnational families come to include other migrants in the diaspora in what I call "communities of care". Broadly, this project is concerned with impacts of globalization and migration on the intimate and material operations of families. Specifically, I propose that transnational families are using all the resources they have available to them to innovate and participate in care work to maintain family life despite separation. My dissertation contributes directly to studies in technology, immigration and transnationalism, family and motherhood, and globalization. Further it tackles issues in gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and social inequality.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology
