Abstract
Due to the increases in international migration and convenient telecommunication brought by the penetration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), transnational families and parenting practices are becoming common and they certainly call for closer academic attention. Drawing on our qualitative data collected in Hong Kong, we explore how Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong, as transnational mothers, use telecommunication to negotiate and reshape gendered parenting roles with their husbands who are left-behind in the Philippines and physically taking care of their children on a daily basis. Our preliminary findings show that traditional gendered parenting roles in the Philippines, which are expressed as fathers as the haligi ng tahanan (foundation of the home) and mothers as the ilaw ng tahanan (light of the home), are under challenge. Filipina domestic workers and their left-behind husbands are constructing a new discourse of gendered parenting practices, which emphasizes women's breadwinning capacity and men's familial duties.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - Dec 2012 |
| Event | Hong Kong Sociological Association 14th Annual Conference: Social Inequalities in a Globalized World = 香港社會學會第十四年度會議: 在全球化世界下的社會不平等 - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China Duration: 1 Dec 2012 → 1 Dec 2012 http://www.hksa2012.ust.hk/index.html (Link to conference website) http://www.hksa2012.ust.hk/uploads/1/2/5/8/12586810/hksa2012_final_program.pdf (Link to conference programme) http://www.hksa2012.ust.hk/uploads/1/2/5/8/12586810/hksa2012_paper_abstracts.pdf (Link to conference paper abstract) |
Conference
| Conference | Hong Kong Sociological Association 14th Annual Conference: Social Inequalities in a Globalized World = 香港社會學會第十四年度會議: 在全球化世界下的社會不平等 |
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| Country/Territory | Hong Kong, China |
| Period | 1/12/12 → 1/12/12 |
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