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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gender and the Transnational Family -- 1. The Global Economy of Care -- 2. The Dismal View of Transnational Households -- 3. Caring for the Family: Why Parents Leave the Philippines -- 4. The Gap Between Migrant Fathers and Their Children -- 5. The Gender Paradox: Recreating "the Family" in Women's Migration -- 6. Gendered Care Expectations: Children in Mother-Away Transnational Families -- 7. The Overlooked Second Generation: The Experience of Prolonged Separation in Two-Parent Migrant Families -- Conclusion: The Persistence of Gender -- Notes -- References -- Index

"With an ethnographer's ear and a social critic's lens, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas illuminates the care deficit of the immigrant second generation, the children of transnational Filipino families left behind by mothers and fathers who labor in the global economy."--Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara.

The global migration of Filipino domestic workersThe international division of reproductive labor -- The transnational family -- Gender and intergenerational relations -- Contradictory class mobility -- The crisis of masculinity -- The aging of migrant domestic workers.

Introduction : Filipina migrants and the force of domesticity -- Gender ideologies in the Philippines -- Patriarchy and neoliberalism in the globalization of care -- Gender and communication in transnational migrant families -- The place and placelessness of migrant Filipina domestic workers -- The derivative status of Asian American women / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Winnie Tam -- The U.S. war on trafficking and the moral disciplining of migrant women -- Conclusion : analyzing gender and migration from the Philippines

In the Philippines, a dramatic increase in labor migration has created a large population of transnational migrant families. Thousands of children now grow up apart from one or both parents, as the parents are forced to work outside the country in order to send their children to school, give them access to quality health care, or, in some cases, just provide them with enough food. While the issue of transnational families has already generated much interest, this book is the first to offer a close look at the lives of the children in these families. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the family members left behind, the author examines two dimensions of the transnational family. First, she looks at the impact of distance on the intergenerational relationships, specifically from the children's perspective. She then analyzes gender norms in these families, both their reifications and transgressions in transnational households. Acknowledging that geographical separation unavoidably strains family intimacy, Parreñas argues that the maintenance of traditional gender ideologies exacerbates and sometimes even creates the tensions that plague many Filipino migrant families

How do states manage their populations? Some scholars see the state as primarily governing through punishment, but how might the state engage in other forms of disciplining subjects? I address these questions by exploring the state management of labor migration through interviews and participant observation of compulsory government workshops. I look at the case of Filipino domestic workers in Arab states. States are said to exercise bio-power when they market and discipline migrants to be competitive and compliant workers, in the process ignoring migrant vulnerabilities. In contrast, this article establishes that sending states attend to migrant vulnerabilities. In addition to bio-power, states also exercise pastoral power, caring for the well-being of migrants through the creation of labor standards, regulation of migration, and education policies. This analysis extends our understanding of the state management of migration as well as the state management of populations as it advances Foucault's discussion of the exercise of power.

In homes across Asia, the Middle East, and the United States, female migrant laborers are doing the difficult work of child and elder care. But these women often leave behind children of their own in countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, a professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California, describes how the lack of legal protections for domestic laborers has made it more challenging for women to be present in their children's lives.

AbstractIn this article, I revisit my formulation of the 'international division of reproductive labour', also known as the 'care chain', and address its impacts on the study of migrant care workers. I also address future directions in the study of migrant care workers, calling attention to the contributions made in this special issue, specifically the need to focus on elderly care, different organizational arrangements of care, and the geopolitics of care.