Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children
Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children
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DOI：
10.1177/1461444810393903
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发表时间：
2011-05-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Miller, Daniel
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作者：
Madianou, Mirca;Miller, Daniel
菲律宾是一个移民密集的社会，每年有100万人移民，导致超过十分之一的人口在国外工作。这些移民中有许多是母亲，她们往往有孩子留在家里。家庭分离现在被认为是影响全球南方的移徙的社会代价之一。这种跨国家庭内部的关系依赖于远距离通信，菲律宾政府机构和电信公司对移动的电话对跨国家庭的影响越来越乐观。本文借鉴了与英国的菲律宾移民-主要是家庭佣工和护士-和他们在菲律宾的留守儿童的比较研究。我们的方法使我们能够直接比较母亲和孩子的经历。文章的结论是，虽然母亲感到授权的手机，使他们能够部分地重建自己的角色作为父母，他们的孩子是明显更矛盾的跨国通信的后果。
The Philippines is an intensely migrant society with an annual migration of one million people, leading to over a tenth of the population working abroad. Many of these emigrants are mothers who often have children left behind. Family separation is now recognized as one of the social costs of migration affecting the global south. Relationships within such transnational families depend on long-distance communication and there is an increasing optimism among Filipino government agencies and telecommunications companies about the consequences of mobile phones for transnational families. This article draws on comparative research with UK-based Filipina migrants - mainly domestic workers and nurses - and their left-behind children in the Philippines. Our methodology allowed us to directly compare the experience of mothers and their children. The article concludes that while mothers feel empowered that the phone has allowed them to partially reconstruct their role as parents, their children are significantly more ambivalent about the consequences of transnational communication.