Claiming birthright: Japanese-Filipino children and the mobilization of descent

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Roots migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Age-related migration consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Japan
  • Philippines
  • Singapore