RT Article
T1 Caregivers Need Care, Too: Conceptualising Spiritual Care for Migrant Caregivers-Transnational Mothers
JF Religions
VO 13
IS 2
A1 Reyes-Espiritu, Ma Adeinev M.
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1804373060
AB Growing research revolving around the plight of (Philippine) migrant domestic workers is noteworthy. However, the focus is largely on their role, capacity and identity as caregivers, meaning as labour migrants and transnational mothers engaged in both paid and unpaid care work. Building on the "care circulation" framework of Baldassar and Merla that conceptualises care as given and received in varying degrees by all family members across time and distance, this paper takes up the task of recognising migrant domestic workers as care receivers. In a particular way, this paper conceptualises care for migrant caregivers-transnational mothers that is based on a qualitative empirical study on the lived realities of Philippine migrant workers, who are also transnational mothers. An analysis of the participants’ narratives using the constructivist grounded theory approach reveals that their experience of God’s presence is central to how they navigate transnational mothering as labour migrants. This paper then proposes that their faith stories, significant as they are, be taken as a resource in providing them with spiritual care that takes their concerns into account.
K1 Christianity
K1 care work
K1 Domestic workers
K1 faith lives
K1 migrant advocates
K1 migrant caregivers
K1 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)
K1 Spiritual Care
K1 Spiritual Journey
K1 Spiritual Support
K1 Spirituality
K1 transnational mothers
DO 10.3390/rel13020173