Migrant Citizenship from Below: Family, Domestic Work, and Social Activism in Irregular Migration

Shinozaki, K.

Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schönberg, Germany. Shinozaki examines their irregular migrant citizenship status from 'above', which is produced by complex interactions between Germany's welfare, care, and migration regimes and the Philippines' gendered politics of overseas employment. Despite the predominant representation of these workers as invisible, these spatially immobile migrants maintain sustained transnational engagements through parenting and religious practices. Shinozaki studies the reverse-gendered process of international reproductive labor migration, in which women traveled first and were later joined by men. Despite their structural vulnerability, participant observations and biographical interviews with the migrants demonstrate that they enact and negotiate migrant citizenship in the workplace, transnational households, religious practices and through accessing health provisions.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-05-06

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349488971

DOI: 10.1057/9781137410429

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 218