Filipino au pairs on the move: Navigating strong and weak ties in the search of future paths

TY - JOUR

T1 - Filipino au pairs on the move

T2 - Navigating strong and weak ties in the search of future paths

AU - Dalgas, Karina Märcher

PY - 2016/12/28

Y1 - 2016/12/28

N2 - Most Filipina au pairs in Denmark send remittances back home, and for many, au pairing forms part of longer-term migration trajectories. This article explores how Filipina au pairs try to carve out a future for themselves abroad. It shows that they navigate within tight webs of financial interdependence, whilst they continuously form their trajectories in relation to opportunities and restraints posed along the way by their local and transnational social relations. The article argues that examinations of migration trajectories benefit from broadening the research out in both time and space by including the migrants’ broader social network within the frame of research.

AB - Most Filipina au pairs in Denmark send remittances back home, and for many, au pairing forms part of longer-term migration trajectories. This article explores how Filipina au pairs try to carve out a future for themselves abroad. It shows that they navigate within tight webs of financial interdependence, whilst they continuously form their trajectories in relation to opportunities and restraints posed along the way by their local and transnational social relations. The article argues that examinations of migration trajectories benefit from broadening the research out in both time and space by including the migrants’ broader social network within the frame of research.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - au pair

KW - Philippines

KW - Migration

KW - Family

KW - mobility

U2 - 10.1515/njmr-2016-0028

DO - 10.1515/njmr-2016-0028

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1799-649X

VL - 6

SP - 199

EP - 206

JO - Nordic Journal of Migration Research

JF - Nordic Journal of Migration Research

IS - 4

ER -