Brother’s keeper? Siblingship, overseas migration, and centripetal ethnography in a Philippine village

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2013
• الموضوعات: kinship; house; family; migration; Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs); South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/17; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1466138113491674

The Western optic of ‘nuclear family’, which is devoid of the individual’s embeddedness in the larger kin group, fails to explain the commitment of overseas Filipino migrants to the ‘extended family’. Yet, it underpins much of the qualitative field methods today. To explain interdependencies as well...