The 1.5 generation

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The 1.5 generation

• an underexplored generation
• with childhoods in two societies
• migrated before the age of majority
• experienced schools in two countries

2
Number of registered Filipino emigrants aged 19
or younger (1981-2013)
Sources CFO 2014 Nagasaka 2015 forthcoming
3
Number of registered Filipino emigrants aged
13-19 years by country of destination (1988-2012)
Nagasaka 2015 forthcoming
4
Filipino migrants in France (2000-2013)
Source CFO 2000-2014
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Composition of the Filipino migrant population in
France based on migration status (2013)
Source CFO 2014
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1.5-generation Filipinos

• 595 migrants aged 0-17 years were born in the
  Philippines (INSEE 2010)
• 101 youngsters aged 13-19 years migrated to
  France between 1988 and 2012 (CFO n.d.)
• a statistical discrepancy rooted in the
  availability of unofficial channel of migration
  from RP to France

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Mobilities experiences of 1.5-generation Filipinos

• mobility across familial contexts
• from family separation to reunification
• mobility across administrative contexts
• from legality to irregularity of juridical status
• mobility across social contexts
• schooling there and here

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Future transnationalism or not?

• in the Philippines
• helping some kin members to emigrate to France
• visits there from time to time

• in France
• pursuing their autonomy and independence
• establishing their professional career
• living permanently there

• in other countries
• travelling or working

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• If I were there in the Philippines right now,
  three possibilities would come to me. First one,
  first one, I would maybe impregnate my
  girlfriend, and I would be a daddy now. Second
  one, I could be arrested or become drug addict.
  Third one, I could be killed or have an accident.
• Tito, 23 years old

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Mobile Childhoods takes the readers across the
Philippine diaspora to provide an important bird
eye's view on the experiences of the 1.5
generation vis a vis schools, labor market and
families. This volume significantly advances our
understanding of migration in a global
society. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas University of
Southern California, USA
Palgrave August 2015 forthcoming