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Tender Labour: Migrant Care Work, Filipina/o Young People, and Family Life Across Borders

Tender Labour: Migrant Care Work, Filipina/o Young People, and Family Life Across Borders


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To meet demand in Canada, more and more women are migrating from the Philippines to become domestic workers. What happens to family left behind? Tender Labour investigates the experiences of young people as they navigate precarity in all its forms when their mothers work elsewhere.

Jennifer Shaw conducts nuanced research with youth who have been separated from and later reunited with their mothers in Canada, incorporating their own voices through poems, song lyrics, and photographs. She focuses on how their tender labour – the work they perform within their families – emerges not only from necessity but also from the stresses and dreams that tug at the threads of kinship.

The role of young people in familial migrations reveals the hard consequences of capitalist extraction of transnational labour. Nonetheless, despite childhoods shaped by economic inequality and racialized disparity, Shaw discovers that these Filipina/o young people keep their hope of a good life.



Table of Contents:

Introduction

1 Precarious Childhood

2 Tender Labour

3 In the Meantime

4 Troubled Reunions

5 To Make a New Life

6 The Future

Conclusion

Appendix: Ethnographic and Participatory Encounters with Young People

Notes; References; Index



About the Author :

Jennifer E. Shaw is an assistant professor of sociology and politics at Thompson Rivers University. She holds a PhD in anthropology. Her writing has been featured in Children & Society, Global Studies of Childhood, and the Anthropology of Work Review. Before entering academia, she was an award-winning youth settlement worker in the non-profit sector in Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia.



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"Tender Labour addresses how analyses of migrations must account for other affected individuals, for transition spaces between separation and reunification, and for potential futures shaped by the past and present. Shaw's thorough and thoughtful engagement with various academic disciplines and fields is impressive."-- "Roland Sintos Coloma, coeditor of Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility" "Shaw's notion of "tender labour" is a beautiful and generative articulation of the complexities of reproductive work, which is at once loving, limiting, useful, and unrecognized. Tender Labour provides rich insights into what it means to live in a transnational family in a highly unequal world."-- "Rachel Rosen, coauthor of Bordering Social Reproduction: Migrant Mothers and Children Making Lives in the Shadows"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780774871310
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 255
  • Weight: 440 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0774871318
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Migrant Care Work, Filipina/o Young People, and Family Life Across Borders
  • Width: 152 mm


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