Caregivers Need Care, Too

Conceptualising Spiritual Care for Migrant Caregivers-Transnational Mothers

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ID3226845
AutoresMa Adeinev M Reyes-Espiritu (0000-0002-7005-7825, Ateneo de Manila University, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume13
Fascículo2
Páginas173
Data de publicação2022-02-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel13020173
OpenAlexW4212902036
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas65

Growing research revolving around the plight of (Philippine) migrant domestic workers is noteworthy. However, the focus is largely on their role, capacity and identity as caregivers, meaning as labour migrants and transnational mothers engaged in both paid and unpaid care work. Building on the "care circulation" framework of Baldassar and Merla that conceptualises care as given and received in varying degrees by all family members across time and distance, this paper takes up the task of recognising migrant domestic workers as care receivers. In a particular way, this paper conceptualises care for migrant caregivers-transnational mothers that is based on a qualitative empirical study on the lived realities of Philippine migrant workers, who are also transnational mothers. An analysis of the participants' narratives using the constructivist grounded theory approach reveals that their experience of God's presence is central to how they navigate transnational mothering as labour migrants. This paper then proposes that their faith stories, significant as they are, be taken as a resource in providing them with spiritual care that takes their concerns into account

Care work · Constructivist grounded theory · Domestic work · Faith · Focus group · Grounded theory · Narrative · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development