Immigration, employment precarity and masculinity in Filipino-Canadian families

In this chapter, Philip Kelly explores how Filipino-Canadian families’ experiences of precarity intersect with gendered, and particularly masculinist, norms and inequalities. Reporting new findings from a major study of Filipino youth transitions in Canada, the chapter explores how Filipino-Canadian young people’s lives are framed by gendered disparities in intergenerational social (im)mobility. The chapter notes that normative trends in social reproduction (whereby university-educated parents typically support degree-gaining children) do not seem to apply for many Filipino-Canadian families. Instead, the chapter shows how Filipino-Canadian families are distinctively shaped by gendered impacts of foreign worker programmes in Canada. Through this analysis, the chapter draws attention to the often-overlooked intersectional impacts of masculinities for migrant families’ lives and experiences.