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'Sending Dollars Shows Feeling' - Emotions and Economies in Filipino Migration

McKay

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This paper analyses the conceptualization of gender, relationships, and emotions that underpin ‘care chains’ approaches to Filipino labour migration. In a case study of long-distance intimacy and economic transfers in an extended Filipino family, I show how contextualizing migration within local understandings of emotion fractures expectations created by care chains accounts. This case instead reveals agency, diversity, and new forms of global subjectivity emerging through long-distance emotional connections within the translocal field shaped by labour mobility.

Publication Date Jul 5, 2007
Journal Mobilities
Print ISSN 1745-0101
Publisher Routledge
Pages 175 - 194
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17450100701381532
Keywords labour mobility, emotion, care chains, transnational migration, Philippines
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1080/17450100701381532

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