
+ Domestic Workers, Filipino diaspora, Filipino migrant workers, Immigration, labor of care, Technology, Transnational Family
Together But Apart: Virtual Connection in the time of Corona
A centerpiece of my book The Labor of Care is the chapter called “Skype Mothers and Facebook Children”. In it, I look at how care work and intimacy between transnational family members is shaped by information communication technologies (ICTs), specifically, Skype and Facebook during the time I was collecting research in the 2000s. In the chapter, I argue that new care providers, patterns of … Read More Together But Apart: Virtual Connection in the time of Corona