ABSTRACT
This chapter importantly recognizes the relatively neglected and silent aspect of the lived experience of migrant mothers in the intimate domain of love and care beyond work and family life. It reveals the narratives of how they feel about themselves as mothers, as nannies, and also importantly as women, and explores the uncertainty and complexity of multiple identity development among the migrant mothers conforming to the prevailing norms of self-sacrifice and working in the coerced situations of social isolation and extreme loneliness. The chapter demonstrates digital media, mobile phones and the Internet in particular, form an embedded part of the lives that migrant women value and choose, albeit not arbitrarily. It gives insight into the potentially empowering, self-development possibilities and also limitations of digital media technologies, while simultaneously recognizing migrant mothers' experience as dynamically produced through the interplay of social structure, of materiality and performativity.
