Balikbayan Boxes and the Performance of Intimacy by Filipino Migrant Women in Hong Kong

Bibliographic Data

ID11147191
AuthorsClement C Camposano (University of Asia and the Pacific, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume21
Issue1
Pages83-103
Publication date2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian and Pacific migration journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0117-1968 • E-ISSN: 2057-049X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/011719681202100104
OpenAlexW1978799955
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited13

This article explores how the sending of goods by Filipino migrant women in Hong Kong to their families in the Philippines is a gendered process that “maps” these migrant women back into the emotional economy of the household. I argue that the practice is a performance of intimacy, a way for migrant women to bridge the Hong Kong and Philippine segments of their diasporic and fragmented lives, which enables them to sustain coherent narratives of the self. The kind of intimacy being performed, however, is unconventional and “diasporic” as it is defined by both engagement with and estrangement from the domestic spaces of home

Art · Bridge (graph theory · Economic growth · Entrepreneurship · Migrant workers · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Women entrepreneurs · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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