de los Reyes, Elizer Jay (2023) Producing 'New' Locality: Young people's placemaking in the Northern Philippines. In, McLeod, Julie, O'Connor, Kate, Davis, Nicole and McKernan, Amy (eds.) Temporality, Space and Place in Education and Youth Research. (Local/Global Issues in Education) 1st ed. London. Routledge, pp. 163-177.
Abstract
Contextualised within the global care chains and village life, this chapter investigates how locality continues to play a significant role in the making of young people’s aspirations and, in turn, how it is produced by them in new and different terms. Using empirical data obtained from fieldwork in the northern Philippines, this chapter presents how young people consume gendered transnational flows of labourers from their villages and the resultant influx of narratives and goods from elsewhere in thinking about their futures. Either as left-behind children by emigrant women or as onlookers, young people use these transformations as resources for imagining their futures and their villages as a site where these imagined future selves are realised. By looking at their emotional grammar in relation to transnational migration and their ways of using social remittances, the study found that young people’s notions of local times and spaces appear to differ from the stable and rigid views of place and the universal and constant notions of time.
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