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Migration and the accentuated ambivalence of motherhood: the role of ICTs in Filipino transnational families

MADIANOU, MIRCA·2012·Global Networks
DOI 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2012.00352.x
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This article is concerned with the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on Filipina transnational mothers' experience of motherhood, their practices of mothering and, ultimately, their identities as mothers. Drawing on ethnographic research with Filipina migrants in the UK as part of a wider study of Filipino transnational families, this article observes that, despite the digital divide and other structural inequalities, new communication technologies, such as the internet and mobile phones, allow for an empowered experience of distant mothering. Apart from a change in the practice and intensity of mothering at a distance, ICTs also have consequences for women's maternal identities and the ways in which they negotiate their ambivalence towards work and family life. In this sense, ICTs can also be seen as solutions (even though difficult ones) to the cultural contradictions of migration and motherhood and the ‘accentuated ambivalence’ they engender. This, in turn, has consequences for the whole experience of migration, sometimes even affecting decisions about settlement and return.

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  • New information and communication technologies, particularly mobile phones and the internet, have increased possibilities for migrants and non-migrants to engage in each other's lives, facilitating active re-creation of family ties and emotional bonds across borders.

    “New information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly mobile phones (Vertovec 2004) and the internet (Madianou 2012;Wilding 2006), have increased the possibilities for migrants and non-migrants to engage in each other's lives, facilitating the active re-creation of family ties and emotional bonds across borders (Baldassar 2007).”

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  1. ORIGINAL CITATION: Madianou, M. (2012) 'Migration and the accentuated ambivalence of motherhood: the role of ICTs in Filipino Transnational Families'. Global Networks , vol. 12 (3): 277295; doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2012.00352.x
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  6. ORIGINAL CITATION: Madianou, M. (2012) 'Migration and the accentuated ambivalence of motherhood: the role of ICTs in Filipino Transnational Families'. Global Networks , vol. 12 (3): 277295; doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2012.00352.x
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Authors
MADIANOU, M.
Affiliations
University of Leicester (GB)
Corresponding author
MADIANOU, MIRCA
ORCID
MADIANOU, MIRCA
Venue
Global Networks
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2012-03-14
Volume
12
Issue
3
Pages
277-295
ISSN
  • 1470-2266 (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-0374
DOI
10.1111/j.1471-0374.2012.00352.x
OpenAlex
W2169272243
Cited by
259
References
44
Citations by year
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FWCI
19.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • Global Networks (publishedVersion)
  • Goldsmiths (University of London) (acceptedVersion)
  • Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/E023533/1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Work-Family Balance Challenges
Keywords
transnational families, motherhood, information and communication technologies, maternal identity, digital divide, mobile devices, internet, migration decisions, return migration, settlement, Philippines, United Kingdom

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