Children and Migration: Understanding the Migration Experience of Child Domestic Workers in the Philippines, 2006
Agnes Zenaida Camacho
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Netherlands
E-mail:pstcrrc@gmail.com

This paper explores the migration experiences of children, with particular focus on child domestic workers in the Philippines. It examines how children are conceptualized in migration literature, and subsequently suggests alternative perspectives on children and migration, informed by recent developments in childhood studies. It emphasizes the nuances of children's migration experiences and the various ways it affects configurations of families and linkages with education, thus acknowledging a complexity that goes beyond the simple notion of migration and work as detrimental to children.