Intergenerational Intimacies and Mobilities in Transnational Families:

Social Relatedness and Forenaming in ‘Mixed’ Families: Valuing Children of Filipino-Belgian Couples

“…For example, Seiger (2019) shows that Japanese-Filipino individuals in Japan use several labels for themselves -'haafu, "mixed roots," Filipino, and Firipin-jin'to adapt to Japanese multiculturalism that recognises 'diversity while maintaining ethnic and racial boundaries' (p. 404). The experiences of these individuals of Japanese and Filipino parentage are also analysed in other studies (Celero, 2022;Suzuki, 2015). These works reveal the salient impact of national context in which mixed-parentage people live and the effect of migration as many of them spent their early childhood in their migrant mothers' country of origin.…”

“…In the literature on these individuals, 'children' can refer to one of the following categories: first, the progeny of mixed couples encompassing all age groups: minors, young adults, and adults (e.g., Unterreiner, 2015); second, the minor and young adult children of these couples (e.g., Celero, 2022;Fresnoza-Flot, 2019;Rodríguez-García et al, 2018;Seiger, 2019); third, the couples' children aged below 18 (e.g., Kalmijn, 2015;Kamada, 2010;Slany & Strzemecka, 2017), and fourth, the couples' adult children (e.g., Zulueta, 2012). In most cases, scholars combine two or all age groups in their studies, allowing them to present heterogenous accounts of mixedness.…”

“…Most of the works about them can be found in Japan where a dynamic Filipino immigration has been taking place since the 1980s. For instance, Filipino-Japanese children's biological ties with a Japanese citizen (i.e., mostly the father) can open possibilities to them and to their Filipino parent to immigrate, stay and work in Japan (Celero, 2022;Seiger, 2019;Suzuki, 2015). Their 'consanguinity as capital' (Seiger, 2017) that most often opens socio-economic mobilities for their family members highlights their important place in their nuclear family.…”