ABSTRACT
The processes highlighted in Chapter 1 are particularly well exemplified in the case of the Philippines. In this chapter we argue that the Philippines is at the forefront of globalisation in three interrelated areas crucial to the focus of this study: migration, family and telecommunications. It is hard to think of a more intensely migrant country than the Philippines, with over 10 per cent of the population living abroad and a million people currently being deployed every year. The fact that most of the current migrants are women who often face barriers to bringing their children has led to the phenomenon of family separation. Transnationalism for such families is not an exotic exception, but an everyday affair with implications for traditional ways of parenting and clearly also for the appropriations of new media.
