Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families: Migrant Children with Similar Roots in Different Routes [Hardcover]

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.

This edited volume contributes to the recent trend of recognizing children as social actors, rendering them more visible in migration studies. ... Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families is a good read for migration scholars and researchers interested in the study of children and youth. (Fiona-Katharina Seiger, International Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 14 (2), July, 2017)

Itaru Nagasaka, Hiroshima University, Japan Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium Megumi Hara, Osaka University, Japan Chiho Ogaya, Ferris University, Japan Raul Pertierra, Philippine Women's University, the Philippines Koki Seki, Hiroshima University, Japan Nobue Suzuki, Chiba University, Japan Sachi Takahata, University of Shizuoka, Japan [...] a welcome contribution to the expanding literature on children and migration. [...] The volume effectively captures the diverse routes to migration, incorporation and transnational belongings of the 1.5-generation Filipinos in various contexts. Based mostly on ethnographic material, the book provides rich and kaleidoscopic portraits of this distinct demographic and sociological population as it navigates departures, reunions and life transitions in the Philippines and beyond. - Maruja Asis, Scalabrini Migration Center, Philippines

Rare is a book that provides such detailed, comparative accounts of children's migratory pathways across varying international contexts. By exploring the experiences of 1.5 generation Filipino migrants occupying an impressive array of transnational spaces, this volume sheds much needed light on how young people uniquelcF