Growing Up with Smartphones
2022; Berghahn Books; Volume: 12; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3167/trans.2022.120303
ISSN2045-4821
AutoresKristel Anne Acedera, Bittiandra Chand Somaiah, Brenda S. A. Yeoh,
Tópico(s)Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
ResumoAbstract Early migration scholarship on the transnational family has tended to portray stay-behind children as passive recipients of care and helpless victims of transnational migration. Despite the increasing sophistication of the literature highlighting children's active roles, empirical studies on transnational families focusing on understanding children's changing agency through time are still limited. We aim to fill this lacuna by offering a longitudinal perspective on children's changing agency in using communication technologies. Focusing on the “transition to adulthood” experiences of Filipino and Indonesian stay-behind children (from 9–11 years old to 17–19 years old), we examine how their agentic behavior and practices change in using information and communication technologies to negotiate power and autonomy within the transnational family. We show how the changes in the children's specific life course and the shifting digital divide that accompany these transitions shape the possibilities and limits to children's empowerment and agency in enacting family transnationally.
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