‘Left-behind’ to ‘get-ahead’? Youth futures in localities
‘Left-behind’ to ‘get-ahead’? Youth futures in localities
This paper explores how left behind children (LBCs) of emigrant women experience and make use of familial and educational investment on ‘getting ahead’ in thinking about their futures. On the one hand, these efforts of Filipino families figure in the imaginary of transnational migration as the ticket to better life. On the other hand, it surfaces in Philippine education’s desire for global competitiveness through educational reform. This paper argues that these attachments to ‘getting ahead’ in life and in education have resulted to LBCs being ‘left behind’ in physical, structural, and figurative terms. They grapple with these failed promises by tapping into local collective solidarities and breaking away from previously circulated imaginaries of the good life in assessing potential mobile futures.
left behind children, mobilities, youth and young people, migration, K to 12 education, Philippines
167-180
de los Reyes, Elizer Jay
24bed502-d1a7-460b-9657-6d24a7ffa4c5
2020
de los Reyes, Elizer Jay
24bed502-d1a7-460b-9657-6d24a7ffa4c5
de los Reyes, Elizer Jay
(2020)
‘Left-behind’ to ‘get-ahead’? Youth futures in localities.
Globalisation, Societies and Education, 18 (2), .
(doi:10.1080/14767724.2019.1700351).
Abstract
This paper explores how left behind children (LBCs) of emigrant women experience and make use of familial and educational investment on ‘getting ahead’ in thinking about their futures. On the one hand, these efforts of Filipino families figure in the imaginary of transnational migration as the ticket to better life. On the other hand, it surfaces in Philippine education’s desire for global competitiveness through educational reform. This paper argues that these attachments to ‘getting ahead’ in life and in education have resulted to LBCs being ‘left behind’ in physical, structural, and figurative terms. They grapple with these failed promises by tapping into local collective solidarities and breaking away from previously circulated imaginaries of the good life in assessing potential mobile futures.
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Accepted/In Press date: 26 November 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 December 2019
Published date: 2020
Keywords:
left behind children, mobilities, youth and young people, migration, K to 12 education, Philippines
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Local EPrints ID: 472943
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/472943
ISSN: 1476-7724
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Elizer Jay de los Reyes
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