Transnational Family Case Study

Since the booming maritime industry increase Filipinos made this job as a stepping stone to be more economically stable in life, drawing on the Written works on the transnational family, women’s work and emotional labor, this study was made by parrenas (2001). The study examines the emotional ramifications For mothering from a distance and integrational relations in Filipino transnational families. Acknowledging the emotional strains generated by geographic distance, parennas analyzes ways by which traditional gender ideologies exacerbates intergenerational conflicts in Filipino migrant families. The formation of transnational families according to parennas, is simultaneously structural forces and a cultural process.“ migrants manifestation transnational families because of the opposition should structural strengths about monetary globalization and over. so doing rely on cultural resources such as the kin network.” The parental absence leaves an emotional mark on children left behind has been well-establish in the literature on migrant parents. On some previous research that I read they have focused their attention mainly on young children as the much bigger affected

Family situations must be seen in the eyes of family members. An analysis must take into account family members’ definition of the situation. Perceptions and interpretations of seafarer father absence by sons and daughters left behind, for example, are likely to affect their handling of the situation of father absence. Positive perceptions and definitions of family situations may result to positive consequences on the children and the family. Understanding positively the family conditions as a result of father absence may be an effective survival strategy. Positive handling of the situation by the absentee father, how he maintains and performs his role as a father and as a husband despite the distance, may likewise result to and contribute much to the survival of the children and family left