Filipino transnational families often hold the histories of stepwise migration carried out by earlier generations. In this article, I argue that considering the transnational family as the unit of analysis for studying stepwise migration can help us understand onward migratory trajectories in two important ways. First, stepwise migratory choices are affected by how past generations within the transnational family have fared in particular locations. Second, transnational families' transmission of stepwise strategies among migrant and nonmigrant family at different points in the migration process offer opportunities for an alternative geographic analysis of care exchange in global households. A 5‐year multisited, longitudinal ethnography between New York City and Metro Manila using family histories of migrant and nonmigrant family members in Filipino transnational families calls attention to the transnational family unit as a repository of information that stepwise migrants use reimagining the sociospatial arrangement of care.

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全家人：跨国家庭和逐步移民策略

菲律宾的跨国家庭经常拥有前几代人逐步移徙的历史。在本文中，我认为将跨国家庭作为研究逐步迁徙的分析单位可以通过两种重要方式帮助我们理解继续迁徙的轨迹。首先，逐步迁徙的选择会受到跨国大家庭的后代在特定地区的表现的影响。其次，跨国家庭在移民过程中不同阶段在移民家庭和非移民家庭之间传递分步策略，这为全球家庭护理交换的地理分析提供了机会。5年多站点，