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  • Title: Family strategies and the migration of women: migrants to Dagupan City, Philippines.
    Author: Trager L.
    Journal: Int Migr Rev; 1984; 18(4 Special Issue):1264-77. PubMed ID: 12340238.
    Abstract:
    This study of women migrants to Dagupan, a 2ndry city in the Philippines, finds complex occupational and migration patterns with women in informal sector occupations as well as in professional/clerical ones. A large number of those in professional or clerical positions, who are also better educated, had moved away from home previously to study, whereas for a majority of those in the informal sector, including salesworkers, the move to Dagupan was the 1st in their life. While a majority of the former had moved with a definite job offer, the latter usually had come to Dagupan at the suggestion of relatives to look for work. Decision to move, usually made by the father, occurs within a cultural context which upholds strong expectations regarding the obligations of family members to 1 another, in this case, in the form of remittances. Daughters are expected to support families to a greater extent than sons, though both are encouraged to migrate to cities. 3 types of family strategies emerge in the analysis of migration pattersns: 1) rural households, usually poor and with little education, send their daughters out in the hope that remittances would help attain the basic necessities of life; 2) in an attempt to follow a strategy leading to upward mobility, some rural families educate their daughters, especially for occupations in the formal sector, whose remittances are used to educate other siblings; and 3) for those families with higher levels of education and income, encouraging daughters to migrate is done with a view to enhancing their position in society, rather than for the purpose of remittance. Women are encouraged by their families to migrate to cities with the expectation, based on strong cultural values, that such migration would help maintain the family as a unit through, among other things, financial support recieved.
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