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研究会報告書タイトル：東・東南アジアの越境する子どもたち－トランスナショナル家族の子どもをめぐる文化・アイデンティティとローカル社会－
日時：平成29年5月20日(土曜日)13時半より17時半
場所：立教大学 マキムホール第1 第2会議室
報告者名：① ニコル・コンステーブル（ピッツバーグ大学）Nicole Constable (University of Pittsburgh)② 黄宗儀（台湾大学）Michelle T.Y. Huang (National Taiwan University)③ 小ケ谷千穂（フェリス女学院大学）Chiho Ogaya (Ferris University)=============Migrant Mothers and the Varieties of Absent Children
Nicole Constable
How do one’s biological children, perhaps the most familial of kin, become(un)familiar strangers through contemporary processes, technologies, and practicesof migration and separation, and how, in the process of migration, conventional andunconventional sorts of families are made and unmade? Taking a two-pronged
approach, I explore the link between an on-the-ground ethnographic and affective
approach to “people” with a more “mid-range” and distanced approach to theinstitutions and expert knowledge, the “global assemblages,” that promote andshape the practices and forms of migratory separation of biological mothers andtheir children. Based primarily on stories told by Indonesian and Filipino migrant
women in Hong Kong about a spectrum of different sorts of absent children, thisessay builds on previous studies of “left-behind children,” calling for greaterattention to the spectrum of sorts of absent children, and to queer or less normative
or forms of migratory families.

Like a Family, but Not Quite: Emotional Labor and Cinematic Politics of Intimacy
Michelle T.Y. Huang
This essay explores the production and possibilities of intimacy in the context ofglobal labor migration, considering the complex forms of borders mediated anddisseminated in cinematic constructions and the paradox of being like family, but当報告の内容は、それぞれの著者の著作物です。
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not quite. By closely analyzing three filmic representations (Hospital 8 East Wing,

Nyonya's Taste of Life, and We Don't Have a Future Together) depicting how female
foreign laborers are treated in Taiwan, this essay looks at the tensions between acongenial affirmation of migrant workers and the constrictive governance of
migrant labor for the state’s regulatory purposes. My assessment of cinematic
representations takes place within a critical analysis of the constitutive logic ofdomestic/healthcare work, namely the paradox of being “like family, but not quite.”
In spite of the fact that these filmmakers attempt to portray migrant laborers as“one of the family,” such benign efforts also represent invisible migrant workers’
emotional as well as physical labor to reinforce the logic of governance that
instrumentalizes their lives.

Japanese Filipino Children (JFC ) and Japan : Crossroads of Family, Nationality,
Class and Migration
Chiho Ogaya
Due to the strict immigration control policy that does not accept the entrance ofso-called “unskilled workers,” the “entertainer” visa has largely become the soleroute by which women migrant workers from the Philippines enter Japan since thelate 1970s.
The term Japanese–Filipino Children (JFC) literally means the children born toFilipino–Japanese parents. In many cases, these children have Filipino mothers,
who came to Japan as entertainers, and Japanese fathers, whom the mothers met
at their workplaces in Japan. Many of these children are not acknowledged by theirJapanese fathers or are categorized as illegitimate children since their Japanesefathers and Filipino mothers are not legally married. Therefore, the children bornout of the Filipino–Japanese wedlock, as well as those who do not have any contact
with their fathers, are called JFC, and they grow up in the Philippines.
In 2009, the nationality law in Japan was amended, according to which theillegitimate children having foreign mothers could acquire the Japanese nationality
in a more relaxed manner than earlier based on the legal recognition of their
biological Japanese fathers. Since then, JFC and their Filipino mothers have been
recruited for elderly care sector and manufacture industry in Japan as the new“unskilled workers.” Ironically, JFC’s “legal Japanese-ness” and “social foreignness”
make them more attractive to Japanese industries as a new source of cheap labor.
In this paper, I discuss the JFC case as the consequences of the immigration
control policy and family system in Japan and reflect on the challenges that have to
be faced by both the Filipino and Japanese societies.
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