Transcript The 1.5 generation

The 1.5 generation
• an underexplored generation
• with childhoods in two societies
• migrated before the age of majority
• experienced schools in two countries
Number of registered Filipino emigrants aged 19 or younger (1981-2013)
Sources: CFO 2014 & Nagasaka 2015 forthcoming
Number of registered Filipino emigrants aged 13-19 years by
country of destination (1988-2012)
& Nagasaka 2015 forthcoming
Filipino migrants in France (2000-2013)
Source: CFO 2000-2014
Composition of the Filipino migrant population in France
based on migration status (2013)
Source: CFO 2014
1.5-generation Filipinos
• 595 migrants aged 0-17 years were born in the Philippines
(INSEE 2010)
• 101 youngsters aged 13-19 years migrated to France
between 1988 and 2012 (CFO n.d.)
• a statistical discrepancy rooted in the availability of
“unofficial channel” of migration from RP to France
Mobilities experiences of 1.5-generation Filipinos
mobility across familial contexts
from family separation to reunification
mobility across administrative contexts
from legality to irregularity of juridical status
mobility across social contexts
schooling “there” and “here”
Future transnationalism or not?
in France
in the Philippines
• pursuing their autonomy
and independence
• helping some kin members
to emigrate to France
• establishing their
professional career
• visits there from time to time
• living permanently there
in other countries
• travelling or working
If I were there [in the Philippines] right now,
three possibilities would come to me. First
one, first one, I would maybe impregnate my
girlfriend, and I would be a daddy now. Second
one, I could be arrested or become drug
addict. Third one, I could be killed or have an
accident.
Tito, 23 years old
‘Mobile Childhoods’ takes the
readers across the Philippine
diaspora to provide an important bird
eye's view on the experiences of the
1.5 generation vis a vis schools,
labor market and families. This
volume significantly advances our
understanding of migration in a
global society.’
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
University of Southern California, USA
Palgrave August 2015 forthcoming