Darlyne Bautista

My proposed research project will analyze how and why reformative action among migrant women occurs, specifically in the form of community knowledge building and intergenerational healing among Winnipeg’s first wave of Filipina garment recruits (1966 to 1986) and their families. The research findings will enable scholars, civil society organizations, educators, and health organizations to understand the enabling factors of identity formation and acculturation across generations. There are long standing concerns about the affects of family separation (Pratt 2009; Parreñas 2005), intergenerational social mobility (Kelly 2015), systemic racism (Coloma 2012), and gendered labour (Barber 2008) and its relationship to race and class identities. Poignant today, for instance, is the hypervisibility of Filipino workers in essential labour sectors during the current COVID-19 pandemic (Nguyen 2020; Bouka et al. 2020). This research will use a qualitative inquiry approach and use participatory methods to expand on emerging research in transnational affect as it applies to emotion, identity, belonging, social memory, and sociality (Wise, et al 2017; Aguila 2015; Krause 2015).