Transnational labor migration has always been a part of Philippine historic and economic landscape. Affected Filipino families managed to maintain familial ties through transnational family communication in its myriad form. In the past twenty years, forces of globalization and rapidly evolving mobile communication technologies necessitate the reexamination of the subject because the complexities that new mobilities brought about require a lens that is interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary. The data gathering was approached through user experience research in order to capture the immediate transnational family communication instances. This research attempts to answer how transnational Filipino families, from the perspective of temporarily contracted Filipino factory workers in Tainan, communicate with each other using the mobile phone.
The data gathered validated previous research on mobile communication and connected presence but it also distilled concepts within transnational labor migration and family communication contexts such as the dichotomy of the experience, the reinterpretation of familial roles among family members, the notion of social multitasking in connected presence, and the demarcations of shared living spaces. Apparently an exploratory research, this study hopes to serve as takeoff points for future researches that elaborate on abovementioned concepts.

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