The connection between the macro level and the micro level to be discussed later on are revealed by this mid-range analysis of Filipino youth social mobility and low level educational outcomes. This connection explains that policies (macro) and norms, practices, and identity formation (micro) influence the modes of incorporation of Filipino immigrants to Canada and structure their new family relation when they settle as permanent residents. This mid-range analysis also aims to demystify the tendency of this paper to entirely define Filipino youth’s educational outcome to their mothers’ migration experience. Other factors such as the lack of role models and the negative representations, and racialization of Filipino in Canada are also important
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A psychology in the USA uses ethnic identity (i.e., pride in one’s ethnic background) and social identity (i.e., one’s ability to relate to others) among Filipino participants. The result shows that the more a Filipino participant is expose to his fellow Filipinos, friends, culture, and community, the higher the person’s ethnic and social identity. It also indicates that having a large support network coming from one’s own ethnic background creates a positive environment, which validates the higher attachment to one’s ethnic and social identity. The Filipino Canadian McGill students who literary search for our club want to feel a sense of belonging and acceptance. They also want to be around fellow Filipino students who may have similar personal and cultural experiences as them. They too want to learn about their ‘Filipino-Canadian identity’ while studying at McGill. They seek role models they can look up to. Yet, that is the problem, within a university setting, a Filipino student organization may exist, however outside the educational setting there are Filipino cultural and regional associations, Filipino …show more content…
Among non-Filipinos in Canada, there is a prevalent stereotype that Filipinos are caregivers and nurses. Kelly suggests that this racialization of the Filipino identity subtly dictates what school guidance counselors, teachers, and mentors tell Filipino students. This may lead to self-fulfilling prophecy for Filipino youth who may follow the advice of these front-line workers to pursue educational career related to healthcare and service sectors. This racialization may also be replicated to the family structure in which Filipino parents are most likely employed in healthcare and service sectors. In other words, youth may be reproducing the low social mobility their parents go through by accepting their supposedly fate of not attending university. Farrales and Pratt find that children of Filipino women under LCP also absorb and reproduce the discourse of suffering and sacrifice the mothers had to endure. Filipino youth live through these suffering and sacrifices as they see their deskilled mothers “[work] multiple jobs to earn subsistence wages”. Hence, Filipino youths who has a mother under the LCP thinks they have an obligation and a responsibility to repay their mother’s sacrifices by taking a paid employment at a younger age. This rhetoric of repaying hinders Filipino youth to dream big and aim high in their
A psychology in the USA uses ethnic identity (i.e., pride in one’s ethnic background) and social identity (i.e., one’s ability to relate to others) among Filipino participants. The result shows that the more a Filipino participant is expose to his fellow Filipinos, friends, culture, and community, the higher the person’s ethnic and social identity. It also indicates that having a large support network coming from one’s own ethnic background creates a positive environment, which validates the higher attachment to one’s ethnic and social identity. The Filipino Canadian McGill students who literary search for our club want to feel a sense of belonging and acceptance. They also want to be around fellow Filipino students who may have similar personal and cultural experiences as them. They too want to learn about their ‘Filipino-Canadian identity’ while studying at McGill. They seek role models they can look up to. Yet, that is the problem, within a university setting, a Filipino student organization may exist, however outside the educational setting there are Filipino cultural and regional associations, Filipino …show more content…
Among non-Filipinos in Canada, there is a prevalent stereotype that Filipinos are caregivers and nurses. Kelly suggests that this racialization of the Filipino identity subtly dictates what school guidance counselors, teachers, and mentors tell Filipino students. This may lead to self-fulfilling prophecy for Filipino youth who may follow the advice of these front-line workers to pursue educational career related to healthcare and service sectors. This racialization may also be replicated to the family structure in which Filipino parents are most likely employed in healthcare and service sectors. In other words, youth may be reproducing the low social mobility their parents go through by accepting their supposedly fate of not attending university. Farrales and Pratt find that children of Filipino women under LCP also absorb and reproduce the discourse of suffering and sacrifice the mothers had to endure. Filipino youth live through these suffering and sacrifices as they see their deskilled mothers “[work] multiple jobs to earn subsistence wages”. Hence, Filipino youths who has a mother under the LCP thinks they have an obligation and a responsibility to repay their mother’s sacrifices by taking a paid employment at a younger age. This rhetoric of repaying hinders Filipino youth to dream big and aim high in their