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… children with disabilities in the ‘new normal’ post-COVID-19 period: collective actions in the Philippines … children with disabilities in the ‘new normal’ post-COVID-19 period: collective actions in the Philippines … new normal period following the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) global outbreak, the propensity toward the …
… increased instances of child violence experienced during COVID-19 at World Vision’s Asia Pacific Child Well-Being … and recommendations of girls and boys on the impact of COVID-19 View the recording of the event below. File Children Speak Out Against Violence during COVID-19 Urgent Call to Governments for Intervention to …
Beyond Family: Separation and reunification for young people negotiating transnational relationships
This paper explores perspectives on family reunification and emergent forms of separation among young migrants. These young people lived apart from and later reunited with their migrant parents who moved from the Philippines to Canada for work. The author draws from 15 months of ethnographic, arts-based, and participatory research with ten participants living in Greater Vancouver. While reunification literature and child rights discourse often focus on the process of a mother and child coming back together, this can obscure the relationships that young people form with others in the meantime…
Overseas Filipino Workers are hailed as modern-day heroes who enable their families to climb the socioeconomic ladder. Despite their financial contribution, labour migration often separates children from their parents during their most formative years of growth, threatening healthy development. Using the Joanna Briggs Institute’s frame-work, this scoping review was conducted to identify the health outcomes of left behind children in the Philippines and health-related interventions.
In total, 4440 records were collected from peer-reviewed articles and grey literature and 50 records…