Lam Theodora, Yeoh Brenda S A
Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore Singapore.
Department of Geography and Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore Singapore.
Popul Space Place. 2019 Apr;25(3):e2151. doi: 10.1002/psp.2151. Epub 2018 Apr 15.
Children-whether left behind or as migrants-have remained largely invisible in Southeast Asian migration scholarship. Their experiences and perspectives on migration, as well as how they demonstrate agency within the limits of culturally/socially constructed childhoods influenced by a "hybridisation" of global and local conditions, are often overlooked in favour of adults'. This article addresses this research lacuna by focusing attention on how left-behind Indonesian and Filipino children between 9 and 11 years of age engage and react to the changes in their everyday lives brought about by both parental migration and parental return. Using both quantitative and qualitative data collected from a larger study on child health and migrant parents in Southeast Asia with return-migrants, left-behind carers, and children, this article highlights the experiences of left-behind children by revealing their agency and creativity in managing changes in their daily lives due to the frequent and transient comings and goings of one or both parents.
在东南亚移民研究中，儿童——无论是留守儿童还是移民儿童——在很大程度上一直未受到关注。他们对移民的经历和看法，以及在受全球与当地状况“融合”影响的文化/社会建构童年的限制范围内展现能动性的方式，常常被忽视，而更受关注的是成年人。本文通过关注9至11岁的印尼和菲律宾留守儿童如何应对父母移民和父母返乡给他们日常生活带来的变化，来填补这一研究空白。本文使用从一项关于东南亚儿童健康与移民父母的大型研究中收集的定量和定性数据，该研究涵盖返乡移民、留守儿童照料者和儿童，通过揭示留守儿童在应对因父母一方或双方频繁短暂的来来去去而导致的日常生活变化时所展现的能动性和创造力，突出了他们的经历。
