Mirca Madianou
Migration and the accentuated ambivalence of motherhood: the role of ICTs in Filipino transnational families
University of Cambridge
abstract article concerned impact information communication technologies icts filipina transnational mothers experience motherhood practices mothering ultimately identities mothers drawing ethnographic research filipina migrants uk part wider study filipino transnational families article observes despite digital divide structural inequalities new communication technologies internet mobile phones allow empowered experience distant mothering apart change practice intensity mothering distance icts also consequences womens maternal identities ways negotiate ambivalence towards work family life sense icts also seen solutions even though difficult ones cultural contradictions migration motherhood accentuated ambivalence engender turn consequences whole experience migration sometimes even affecting decisions settlement return