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1. 1. Irregularity meets integration : Conceptualising the agency and positionalities of irregular Filipino migrants navigating the (in)formal rules of a post-Brexit, mid-pandemic UK

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Patricia Eunice Miraflores; [2022]
   Keywords : Irregular migration; structure and agency; positionality; Brexit; UK; pandemic; self-integration; autonomy of migration; acts of citizenship; Filipino migrants; Philippines;

   Abstract : Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic are two recent crises whose combined effects exacerbated the exclusion of irregular migrants in Europe. In this thesis, I will explore the structure-agency linkages that shaped the everyday survival strategies of irregular Filipino migrants (IFMs) in navigating a post-Brexit, mid-pandemic UK. READ MORE

3. 2. The Filipino-American Care Chain : Gender, Transnational Migration and the Globalisation of Care

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Thydén Nanna; [2019]
   Keywords : Care chains; domestic workers; care drain; remittances; transnational families; Philippines; United States;

   Abstract : By caring for children, the elders and the ill, care workers are fundamental for the global economy and for peoples’ well-being. As confirmed in this thesis, the majority of domestic workers are migrant women. READ MORE

4. 3. Filipina Nurses in the National Health Service: The push and pull factors behind international migration to the United Kingdom

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Catherine Ford; [2018]
   Keywords : push-pull; international migration; the UK; the Philippines; social capital theory; human capital theory;

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5. 4. Establishing a Culture of Migration : The Spatial, Economic, and Social Planning of Philippine-Korean Labour Migration

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Lars Jesper Alkarp; [2018]
   Keywords : labour migration; the Philippines; Korea; globalisation; transnationalism; transnational families; ethnic enclaves; remittances;

   Abstract : Since the second half of the 20th century the Philippines have supplied the world with migrant workers. Today, almost one tenth of the population is residing abroad. READ MORE

6. 5. Nipa Huts with High Speed Internet: Commercial Exploitation of Children in the 21st Century. A Qualitative investigation of Webcam Child Prostitution in the Philippines

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Salla Aurén; Dennis Fris Kuhlmann; [2015]
   Keywords : Webcam Child Prostitution; Webcam Child Sex Tourism; child sexual abuse; commercial sexual abuse of children; prostitution; the Philippines; incest; accumulation by dispossession; child welfare; poverty; child pornography; social media; migration; unemployment; techniques of neutralisation.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the emerging issue of Webcam Child Prostitution (WCP) that has so far only been observed in the Philippines. Utilising a qualitative approach, the authors conducted a series of interviews with law enforcement and civil society, as well as survivors of the crime and two focus groups in a low-income neighbourhood in Manila. READ MORE