The Filipino Diaspora: Exploring the ways in which migration affects the lives of Filipino labour migrants and their families.

该项目将探讨移民和侨民有关的菲律宾社区在英国的定义。它将考虑菲律宾侨民的开始以及菲律宾境外发生的劳工迁移的情况。该项目将查明劳工移徙者选择移徙背后的原因，并反思他们在东道国的个人经历。此外，该项目将考虑劳工移徙者对家园的看法，并确定这种看法在移徙后是否发生了变化。然后，它将探讨劳工移民在返回后重新融入母国文化的方式。该项目还将考虑“隐形人”或农民工的家庭。承认这一群体是至关重要的，因为他们也间接受到移徙现象的影响。这可以从家庭动态的变化、菲律宾核心家庭构成的变化以及劳工移民亲属的遗弃感等方面来表现。进行这项研究的重要性在于进一步了解移民的影响，特别是在菲律宾侨民中，因为已经进行了非常有限的研究，这些研究为英国这一特定种族的移民经历提供了信息。此外，这符合ESRC的优先事项，即解释全球政治经济的性质，并与劳动力迁移交叉，这可以告知英国脱欧等政治事件如何影响经济衰退期间的劳动力迁移行为。

The project will explore the definition of migration and diaspora pertaining to the Filipino community in the UK. It will consider the beginnings of the Filipino diaspora as well as the circumstances surrounding labour migration occurring outside the Philippines. The project will identify the reasons behind the labour migrants' choice to migrate and reflect on their personal experiences within the host country. Furthermore, the project will consider the ways in which labour migrants perceive the homeland and identify if this has changed post-migration. It will then explore the ways that labour migrants reintegrate to the culture of the home country upon return. The project will also consider the 'invisible' people or the families of the labour migrants. It is crucial to acknowledge this group as they are also indirectly affected by the phenomenon of migration. This can be in terms of the shift in family dynamics, the changes in what constitutes the nuclear family in the Philippines and feelings of abandonment from the relatives of the labour migrants. The importance to undertake this research is to further our knowledge regarding the impacts of migration especially within the Filipino diaspora as very limited studies have been undertaken which informs the migratory experiences of this particular ethnic group in the UK. Furthermore, this is in line with the ESRC'spriority of interpreting the nature of the global political economy and intersects with labour migration, which can inform how political events such as Brexit affect the behaviours of labour migrants during economic recessions.