Abstracts > Care in times of pandemic and illness Workshop n°4 - Care in times of pandemic and illness Discussant : Ken Daimaru | Université de Paris - CRCAO - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Caring in times of 'Crisis': Immigrant Discourse, Spatiality and Temporality of Care among Permanent Resident Filipinos in Tokyo, Japan #Keywords: Filipino immigrants, Japan, care, crisis, translocalism, temporality, spatiality While the COVID-19 global health crisis has disrupted many lives, societies and economies, it also generated opportunities particularly for migrants to provide and receive care to alleviate the pandemic's negative economic, social and health impacts. As one of the largest diasporic populations, Filipinos are among those who have become permanent residents after decades of living, working, and leading a family in Japan while remaining functionally connected to homeland Philippines. Departing from existing literature problematizes the social and economic marginalization of Filipino migrants and their Japanese-Filipino children, the current paper focuses on how the COVID-19 crisis has (re)configured their discourse and practices of care as immigrants in Japan. Building on my ongoing life course research on 70 Filipino immigrant women in Tokyo, the proposed paper aims to look into the extent to which the global pandemic has impacted on their articulations and practices of care. It also discusses the temporal dimensions of care through juxtaposing the current ‘crisis' to their previous experiences, and whether their permanent residency (i.e. settled status) distinguishes their needs, resources, and capacity to care vis-à-vis other migrant residents. It also aims to explore the spatial aspects of care, linking the roles (as carers and cared) that they play in the Filipino migrant community in Tokyo, and community of origin (i.e. hometown) in the Philippines. In doing so, the paper hopes to bring to the fore the voice and agency of migrants through analyzing their discourses and narratives of care that transcend beyond time and space. Jocelyn O. Celero is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Japan Studies Program at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines-Diliman. She obtained her Ph. D. in International Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 2016. Her dissertation examined the transnational life trajectories of 1.5- and second-generation Japanese-Filipinos. She has published on migration and transnationality of Filipino migrants and Japanese-Filipinos. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Vietnamese (Digital) Carescape Responses to COVID-19 as seen through the Lens of Face Masks #Keywords: Covid 19, Face Masks, (Digital) Carescapes, Affects of Care, Vietnamese Diaspora Face masks are undoubtedly one of the most visible and (at least in some European countries and the United States) most controversial markers of the Covid-19 pandemic. Contrary to the white-German majority society, Vietnamese migrants in Berlin were right from the beginning of this health crisis much more aware of the essential role of wearing masks in public. So, when the German government was still advising the general public against donning masks in March 2020, elderly Vietnamese migrants in Berlin were already producing thousands of fabric masks for donation to ill-prepared hospitals and care facilities. Vietnamese students in Berlin and children of Vietnamese migrants born and/or raised in Germany also initiated different mask-related campaigns to tackle the health crisis and support local Vietnamese communities. Based on digital ethnography in the spring of 2020 and later offline ethnographic exploration during the year, we followed the emergence of several of those Vietnamese "carescapes” trying to cope with the then-evolving pandemic moment. Besides showing the processual character of those care responses, we also aim to work out distinct differences between the migrant generation and post-migration actors regarding their motivations to organise their respective campaigns. While our interlocutors from the latter group were much more vocal about anti-Asian racism and thus aimed for community-care projects, the Vietnamese migrants we talked to framed their care response in terms of a narrative of giving back to their second home country in times of need. Looking through the analytical lens of face masks, we aim to highlight these emic understandings of care as they were materialised in self-sewn masks. By that, we want to leave the traditional dichotomy of caregiver/-receiver behind us and point instead to the relational as well as empowering character of care in times of a global pandemic. Max Müller: I am a PhD student working at the Collaborative Research Centre 1171 "Affective Societies - Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds", based at Freie Universität Berlin. Growing up in the eastern part of Berlin I encountered Vietnamese migrants and their German-born children very early in my life. This led me to do ethnographic research among a group of post-generation German-Vietnamese with special focus on their transnational upbringing. For my M.A thesis, I wanted to understand how members of this group construct and negotiate their sense of belonging in their ancestral homeland while on holiday there. My PhD research focusses on emerging care spaces and the institutionalisation of mental health services for Vietnamese migrants in Berlin with special focus on the affective dimension of dying in the diaspora. Thi Quynh-Nhu Tran: I am a psychologist working at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, CBF, as well as working at the Collaborative Research Centre 1171 "Affective Societies", based at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. As part of the CRC project "Affects and Processes of Institutionalization in Vietnamese Carescapes of Berlin" my current research focus is the exploration of "Costs of Caring" for caregivers with Vietnamese backgrounds, especially the burden for employees in health care system with the additional factor of migration. Further interests of my work as a therapist and researcher are also approaches of the Systemic Therapy as well as theories of anti-discrimination. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The maintenance and reconfiguration of social ties during the Covid-19 pandemic: A study among elderly Chinese immigrants in Ile-de-France #Mots-Clés : personnes âgéees, pandémie de Covid 19, lien social, confinement, migration chinoise en France, numérique, care Nombreuses études menées en France sur les personnes âgées d'origine étrangère montrent leurs vulnérabilités spécifiques (Dubus et Braud, 2001 ; Dourgnon et al., 2009 ; Samaoli, 2011 ; Madoui, 2015). D'autres recherches se focalisent sur la capacité des immigrés âgés à mettre en œuvre les pratiques transnationales régulières entre la France et leur pays d'origine (Attias-Donfut et Wolff, 2005 ; Crenn, 2011). Dans le cas de la population vieillissante d'origine chinoise en France, de précédentes recherches empiriques montrent qu'elle est peu visible dans l'espace public. Cette invisibilité peut s'expliquer par l'existence d'entraves linguistiques et par les différentes formes de discriminations que ces personnes âgées ressentent. En outre, les femmes chinoises âgées, par rapport aux hommes, constituent davantage le pivot de l'interface avec la société d'accueil (Wang et Schwartz, 2016). Des personnes âgées d'origine chinoise formulent par ailleurs une attente accrue des activités associatives (Lui, 2019). Dans la continuité de ces travaux précédents, la crise de la pandémie de Covid-19 nous offre un nouveau contexte inédit pour analyser les conditions de vie et les prises en charge de ces personnes âgées d'origine chinoise. S'appuyant sur des données à la fois qualitatives (entretiens semi-directifs, observations participantes, ethnographies en ligne et hors ligne, retour d'expériences de travailleurs associatifs) et quantitatives (un questionnaire en ligne), collectées dans les cadres du projet ANR MigraChiCovid et de la vie associative d'une association franco-chinoise située à Belleville, cette communication se propose d'examiner les façons dont les personnes âgées d'origine chinoise vivant en Ile-de-France entretiennent des liens sociaux – liens familiaux, liens entre pairs, liens avec la société d'accueil, et liens avec le pays d'origine – de janvier à octobre 2020, au temps de la pandémie de Covid-19. Une réflexion transversale est menée sur le rôle des acteurs associatifs dans l'accompagnement global des personnes âgées d'origine immigrée, à l'ère numérique et pandémique. Simeng Wang is a sociologist, permanent research fellow at The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and faculty member at the CERMES3 (Research Centre, Medicine, Science, Health, Mental Health and Society). Her research interests are in the international migration studies, social sciences of health and mental health and sociology of the Chinese world (China and its diasporas). Since 2009, she has been working on Chinese immigration in France. Her scientific publications include Illusions et souffrances. Les migrants chinois à Paris (Éditions rue d’Ulm, 2017; English version, Brill, 2021), Mental health and mental suffering. An object for the social sciences(CNRS Éditions, 2018) and Chinese immigrants in Europe: image, identity and social participation (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020). Since January 2020, she has been conducting a new empirical survey on Chinese migrations in France facing Covid-19 and leading the MigraChiCovid Project (2020 -2022). She has also been the coordinator of the research network on East and South-East Asian Migrations in France. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - L'hôpital domestique ou comment « prendre soin ». Une anthropologie du care des malades du cancer au Cambodge #Mots-Clés : Cambodge, cancer, hôpital, famille, médecin, soin Je propose d’analyser les modalités du « care » dans un contexte de maladie grave et difficilement curable. En m’appuyant sur une enquête de terrain conduite entre 2013 et 2016 au sein de deux services de cancérologie à Phnom Penh, il s’agit de rendre compte des expériences de soin des malades du cancer au Cambodge. Je m’intéresse ici à la manière dont les malades et leurs proches vivent et expérimentent un univers médical qui leur est peu familier, voire totalement inconnu. Je vais décrire les caractéristiques de l’hôpital cambodgien afin d’analyser l’organisation familiale qu’impliquent des hospitalisations à répétition. L’entourage du malade endosse un certain nombre de rôles et de responsabilités où se distinguent différentes facettes du soin et de l’aide. Ainsi, ma communication questionne ce que soigner et prendre soin veut dire, pour les proches des malades et pour les médecins. Sans opposer ces deux perspectives, il s’agit de montrer quelles sont les responsabilités de chacun, en analysant notamment les termes vernaculaires liés à l’aide et à l’entraide. Meriem M'zoughi est docteure en anthropologie, chercheure associée à l’UMR 5600 Environnement ville société. Ses travaux portent sur le Cambodge et s’inscrivent dans les champs de l’anthropologie de la santé, de la maladie et des médecines. Dans le cadre d’une thèse sur le cancer au Cambodge, elle a conduit une enquête de terrain entre 2013 et 2016 dans et hors de deux hôpitaux à Phnom Penh ainsi qu’auprès d’une organisation non gouvernementale qui dispense des soins palliatifs, cela lui a permis de suivre le quotidien des malades et des familles. Elle s’intéresse aux soins prodigués par tous les acteurs (aidants et soignants) présents dans l’espace thérapeutique d’un malade. Son intérêt se porte sur les conduites de santé au sens large, allant des soins corporels, à l’alimentation, en passant par les recours thérapeutiques pluriels. |
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