Graham Elspeth, Jordan Lucy P, Yeoh Brenda S A, Lam Theodora, Asis Maruja
Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, Irvine Building, North Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, Scotland;
Environ Plan A. 2012 Apr 1;44(4). doi: 10.1068/a4445.
As a significant supplier of labour migrants, Southeast Asia presents itself as an important site for the study of children in transnational families who are growing up separated from at least one migrant parent and sometimes cared for by 'other mothers'. Through the often-neglected voices of left-behind children, we investigate the impact of parental migration and the resulting reconfiguration of care arrangements on the subjective well-being of migrants' children in two Southeast Asian countries, Indonesia and the Philippines. We theorise the child's position in the transnational family nexus through the framework of the 'care triangle', representing interactions between three subject groups- 'left-behind' children, non-migrant parents/other carers; and migrant parent(s). Using both quantitative (from 1010 households) and qualitative (from 32 children) data from a study of child health and migrant parents in Southeast Asia, we examine relationships within the caring spaces both of home and of transnational spaces. The interrogation of different dimensions of care reveals the importance of contact with parents (both migrant and nonmigrant) to subjective child well-being, and the diversity of experiences and intimacies among children in the two study countries.
作为劳务移民的重要供应地，东南亚是研究跨国家庭中儿童的重要场所，这些儿童在成长过程中与至少一位移民父母分离，有时由“其他母亲”照顾。通过留守儿童常常被忽视的声音，我们调查了父母移民以及由此导致的照料安排重新配置对印度尼西亚和菲律宾这两个东南亚国家移民子女主观幸福感的影响。我们通过“照料三角”框架对儿童在跨国家庭关系中的地位进行理论化，该框架代表了三个主体群体——“留守儿童”、非移民父母/其他照料者和移民父母之间的互动。利用东南亚儿童健康与移民父母研究中的定量数据（来自1010户家庭）和定性数据（来自32名儿童），我们研究了家庭照料空间和跨国空间内的关系。对照料不同维度的审视揭示了与父母（移民和非移民）接触对儿童主观幸福感的重要性，以及两个研究国家儿童经历和亲密关系的多样性。
