Children's Geographies
Volume 13, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 263-277

Transnational migration, changing care arrangements and left-behind children's responses in South-east Asia (Article)

Hoang L.A.* , Lam T. , Yeoh B.S.A. , Graham E.
  • a Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Bukit Timah Campus, 469A Tower Block, #10-01, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, 258770, Singapore, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of MelbourneVIC 3010, Australia
  • b Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Bukit Timah Campus, 469A Tower Block, #10-01, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, 258770, Singapore
  • c Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Bukit Timah Campus, 469A Tower Block, #10-01, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, 258770, Singapore
  • d Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St. Andrews, Irvine Building, North Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, United Kingdom

Abstract

Recent increases in the volume of labour migration from South-east Asia – and in particular the feminisation of these movements – suggest that millions of children are growing up in transnational families, separated from their migrant parents. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data collected in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, the study seeks to elucidate care arrangements for left-behind children and to understand the ways in which children respond to shifts in intimate family relations brought about by (re)configurations of their care. Our findings emphasise that children, through strategies of resistance, resilience and reworking, are conscious social actors and agents of their own development, albeit within constrained situations resulting from their parents’ migration. © 2014, © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis.

Author Keywords

Agency transnational migration Left-behind children South-east Asia care arrangements

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84926455751&doi=10.1080%2f14733285.2015.972653&partnerID=40&md5=430f03229d3b9424574f10af6a90df62
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2015.972653
ISSN: 14733285
Cited by: 31
Original Language: English