Gender and transnational migration : Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration, Integration and Cultural Diversity

Gender and Transnational Migration: Tracing the Impacts 'Home' Katharine Laurie Saint Mary’s University – Gender, Migration and Diversity / Immigrant Women Abstract/Résumé: Women‟s increased participation in the paid labour force and the stall in the gender revolution associated with a lack of expansion of the roles of males to include nurturing have resulted in a care deficit in the global North, [...] The lack of discussion and analysis of transnational fatherhood can potentially be explained by the different expectations placed on men‟s roles as parents, and the enduring notion of the „monolithic family‟ -- a conception of the nuclear family with two parents of opposite sexes and enough resources to allow for the separation of wage earning and home and child carework along gendered lines, whic [...] In terms of the educational impacts of transnational parenting, a survey from the Philippines indicates that 35 percent of children whose fathers were working overseas were ranked among the top ten children of their class in terms of grades, while the 1. Commissioned by the Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrant and Iterant People, CBCP / The Apostleship of the Sea, the Scalabrini M [...] Possible explanations for this finding lie in rarities of the sample,bias in the methods of data collection, and the breaking down of gender differences in parenting with distance, perhaps in practice without corresponding changes in the ideologies of mothering and fathering. [...] Potential rarities in the sample that may have affected the lack of differences in mothering and fathering are the presence of two fathers who grew up in mother-headed households, both of whom discussed how difficult this had been, potentially influencing their own parenting behaviour, and the lack of construction workers among the fathers in the sample (which is the most common type of employment