Between Digital Lifelines and Structural Barriers: Filipina Migrants’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Integration in the Netherlands.
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2025-08-27
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This study examines how Filipina migrants in the Netherlands, across varying legal statuses and digital literacy levels, navigate digital tools and social media platforms to access employment opportunities. The research applies an intersectional framework grounded in digital inequality, legal precarity, and gendered labor, drawn from 20 semi-structured interviews with migrant women and institutional representatives. Thematic analysis reveals that while platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp play a central role in job searching and informal economic participation, unfamiliarity with institutional digital literacy programs, language barriers, and structural conditions (i.e., Dutch Linking Act) that reinforce legal and information precarity hinder access to formal services. Institutional digital literacy programs do not align with the lived realities of migrant women. The study finds that both digital resilience tactics and information precarity shape these women’s experiences. It concludes by highlighting the need for culturally responsive, legally inclusive digital literacy programs that address migrants’ specific socioeconomic challenges in highly digitalized societies like the Netherlands.
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