title: Transnational migration, changing care arrangements and left-behind children's responses in South-east Asia.
abstract: Recent increases in the volume of labour migration from South-east Asia - and in particular the feminisation of these movements - suggest that millions of children are growing up in transnational families, separated from their migrant parents. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data collected in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, the study seeks to elucidate care arrangements for left-behind children and to understand the ways in which children respond to shifts in intimate family relations brought about by (re)configurations of their care. Our findings emphasise that children, through strategies of resistance, resilience and reworking, are conscious social actors and agents of their own development, albeit within constrained situations resulting from their parents' migration.
authors.affiliation: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Bukit Timah Campus, 469A Tower Block, #10-01, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore258770, Singapore; School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne, VIC3010, Australia.
authors.forename: Lan Anh
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Hoang
authors.affiliation: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore , Bukit Timah Campus, 469A Tower Block, #10-01, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 258770 , Singapore.
authors.forename: Theodora
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.affiliation: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore , Bukit Timah Campus, 469A Tower Block, #10-01, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 258770 , Singapore.
authors.forename: Brenda S A
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Yeoh
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St. Andrews , Irvine Building, North Street, St Andrews , KY16 9AL Fife , Scotland, UK.
authors.forename: Elspeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Graham
keywords: South-east Asia; agency; care arrangements; left-behind children; transnational migration