scholarly journals Framing the Study of Transnational Families in Lithuania

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-49
Author(s):  
Irena Juozeliūnienė
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
Vilnius University

This chapter aims to place the study of Lithuanian transnational families within a broader body of the most recent theoretical frames through which to understand personal lives, family practices and the ways family relationships could be perceived as ‘troubled’. The author provides a short overview of theoretical approaches and research methodologies used at the Department of Sociology at Vilnius University since 2004 to frame the study of transnational families in Lithuania.

scholarly journals Making Lithuanian Families Across Borders

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-186
Author(s):  
Irena Juozeliūnienė ◽  
Julie Seymour
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
Intergenerational Issues

This edited collection opens the door to understanding the representations and experiences of Lithuanian migrant families. The authors aim to highlight the most recent theoretical frames through which to understand the personal lives, family practices of migrants, and the ways family relationships could be perceived as ‘troubled’. The authors test and extend these ideas about family life with a focus on gender and intergenerational issues in the context of Lithuanian families across borders.

scholarly journals Family Practices Across Generations and National Borders

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-169
Author(s):  
Ionuţ Földes ◽  
Veronica Savu
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Spatial Separation ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Practical Support ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
And Migration ◽  
National Borders

Abstract Part of the mobility and migration process, family relationships and mutual support are subject of various transformations. Spatial separation between family members creates a specific setting for analysis which leads to the necessity of understanding how family practices are arranged and developed across time and distance. The present study focuses on the dyad emigrated adult children and non-migrated elderly parents living in Romania and on the types of intergenerational family practices that occur between these dyads across national borders. Our analysis of family practices relies on tracing certain set of actions taken by family members in order to maintain, consolidate, and ultimately to display family solidarity. We consider here various forms of practices, namely technological mediated contacts, visits, time-consuming practical support and financial assistance. Analyses are based on the national survey entitled Intergenerational solidarity in the context of work migration abroad. The situation of elderly left at home, which provides empirical data about the relationships from a distance between elderly parents living in Romania and their migrant adult children. Descriptive statistics are provided in order to assess the flow directions, the frequency and the intensity of each type of intergenerational support. Our empirical evidence highlights that transnational support is asymmetrical and multidirectional. Results also support that intergenerational support and family relationships can no longer be theoretically approached in terms of a simple dichotomy.

Co-parenting in families with an imprisoned parent: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Antonella Reho ◽  
Paola Corsano ◽  
Laura Fruggeri
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family System ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
Incarcerated Parents ◽  
Caregiving System ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Methodological Procedures

Objectives: We explored the literature to investigate the main results of research into the practice of co-parenting in families with an imprisoned parent.Moreover, we aimed to point out the theoretical approaches used to analyze coparenting in the case of parental detention and the methods by which co-parenting is recognized and measured. Method: We used the EBSCO platform to explore the databases PsycINFO and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.First, we researched parenting OR co-parenting AND (incarcerated mother OR incarcerated father); the next search was for family AND (incarceration OR prison OR jail). Then we searched for fathers OR mothers AND (incarceration OR prison OR jail), and the final search attempt was for wives OR partners OR husbands AND (incarceration OR prison OR jail). Results: After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, we selected 14 studies for this literature review.Conclusions: The number of studies about co-parenting in families dealing with parental detention is limited. Most of what is known about the co-caregiving system or alliance and children's adjustment has come from studies of families with young children. The methodological procedures used to explore the relationships between incarcerated parents, children, and home caregivers were individually focused. What emerged from this literature review is the need to recognize the triadic nature of family relationships and therefore the need to adopt procedures that would allow us to analyze the triadic processes characterizing a family system.

Gender and Tourism

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-127
Author(s):  
Denise Salvador ◽  
Zélia Breda ◽  
Filipa Brandão
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Women In Leadership ◽  
Female Leaders ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Early Entry

An increasing number of women occupy positions in the labour market that were previously restricted to men. This is, however, still limited by the dual roles of working women. This chapter aims to address gender issues in the tourism industry. Specifically, it focuses on female participation in the labour market, highlighting the characteristics of women in leadership positions. A case study approach was used, focusing on female leaders in the hotel sector in Fortaleza, Brazil. An exploratory qualitative study was developed through semi-structured interviews, which aimed to gather data on the career path of female leaders. The collected data allowed understanding how these women reached top-level positions, and their leadership styles. Results indicate that early entry into the labour market, dedication, education, entrepreneurial skills, and dynamic personality are instrumental and work directly affects family relationships, being the cause of some problems in their personal lives.

‘Everybody needs friends’: Emotions, social networks and digital media in the friendships of international students

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 674-691
Author(s):  
Jolynna Sinanan ◽  
Catherine Gomes
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Kin Relations ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Networks Of Support

The importance of kin relations and neighbourhoods has received considerable attention in research on transnational migration. Further, research in transnational families and digital media highlights the strategies for maintaining family relationships By contrast, research on friendship is currently limited and, more so, the centrality of the emotional aspects of friendships as intimacy as well as networks of support has received less attention, particularly from a culturally comparative perspective. Drawing on qualitative research in Melbourne ( n = 59) and Singapore ( n = 61), this article examines the ways in which international students invest in developing friendships with other international students based on shared circumstances in the cities in which they are living and studying. The article contributes to fields of literature in transnational migration and cross-cultural perspectives towards friendship and argues that the kinds of friendship forged by the experiences of international students are significant for capturing an aspect of the diversity of migrant relationships.

The Development of Relational Aggression

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Relational Aggression ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Indirect Aggression ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Socializing Agents ◽  
Type Of Behavior

The Development of Relational Aggression provides a rich and detailed literature review on developmental processes associated with the perpetration of relational aggression (and related terms of indirect aggression and social aggression) across childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood (with a brief mention of relational aggression in adulthood). Relational aggression is defined as behavior that is intended to harm another’s relationships or feelings of inclusion in a group. Unlike physical aggression, the scars of relational aggression are more difficult to see. However, victims (and aggressors) may experience strong and long-lasting consequences, including reduced self-esteem, loneliness, substance use, eating pathology, depression, and anxiety. This volume begins by providing an overview of the field, including a discussion of definitions, developmental trajectories, methodology, and theoretical approaches. Additionally, the volume examines the biobehavioral and evolutionary processes associated with this type of behavior. The book also examines a number of risk factors and socializing agents and contexts (e.g., family, peers, media, school, culture) that lead to the development of relational aggression over time. An understanding of how these behaviors develop will help inform intervention strategies to curb the use of relational aggression in schools, peer groups, and family relationships, which are addressed in an extended chapter.

scholarly journals Paradoxical family practices: LGBTQ+ young people, mental health and wellbeing

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-553
Author(s):  
Jacqui Gabb ◽  
Elizabeth McDermott ◽  
Rachael Eastham ◽  
Ali Hanbury
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
Diary Methods

This article will explore how LGBTQ+ young people sustain, and in some cases survive, family relationships. We develop the concept of ‘paradoxical family practices’ and use this to demonstrate the ways in which LGBTQ+ young people manage family life through everyday emotion work. This highlights: (1) how families ordinarily navigate heteronormativity and ‘issues’ of gender/sexuality; (2) the efficacy of ‘paradoxical family practices’ as a conceptual tool; (3) the value of emotion-centred multiple qualitative methods to explore the lives of LGBTQ+ young people and mental health. Findings derive from a small-scale UK study funded by the Wellcome Trust (UNS39780) and were generated through a two-stage methodology comprising digital/paper emotion maps and qualitative interviews with LGBTQ+ young people aged 16–25 (n = 12) followed by diary methods and follow-up interviews (n = 9). Interviews were also completed with ‘family members’ (n = 7).

The financialisation of transnational family care: a study of UK-based senders of remittances to Ghana and Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Nicola Yeates ◽  
Freda Owusu-Sekyere
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Social

AbstractTransnational families occupy centre-stage in literatures on transformations in the social organisation and relations of care and welfare because they express how social bonds are sustained despite geographical separation. This paper examines some key themes arising from a research study into remittance-sending practices of UK-based Ghanaians and Nigerians in the light of research literatures on transnational family care and development finance. The data comprises qualitative interviews with 20 UK-based Ghanaian and Nigerian people who regularly send remittances to their families ‘back home’. This paper discusses a social issue that arises from the transnationalisation of family structures and relations, when migrant family members are positioned within family networks as ‘absent providers’, and familial relations eventually become financialised. The findings show the complexities of transnational living, the hardships endured by remittance-senders and the particular strains of remittance-mediated family relationships. The financialisation of family relations affects the social subjectivity and positioning of remittance-senders within the family. Strain and privation are integral to participants’ experiences of transnational family life, while themes of deception, betrayal, and expatriation also feature. The suppression of emotion is a feature of the significant labour inputs participants make in sustaining relationships within transnational families. The paper considers UK social policy implications of the findings.

scholarly journals Transnational families and the circulation of care: a Romanian–German case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELISABETH SCHRÖDER-BUTTERFILL ◽  
JULIA SCHONHEINZ
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Transnational Family

ABSTRACTThis article contributes to our understanding of transnational family relationships and the circulation of care. We are interested in understanding how large-scale emigration affects the support and care of older people in the origin country. Using in-depth interviews and participant observation, we examine the significance of transnational family support for older people, and the ways in which migrant children and other kin care for elderly relatives from afar. Our case study is of the Transylvanian Saxons, a German-speaking minority in Romania, who experienced mass-exodus to Germany following the end of socialism in 1990. The lapse of time since the exodus allows us to examine how transnational family practices evolve, and what the challenges are to maintaining family-hood over time and distance. Contrary to expectations, we find that material family support from Germany to Romania is not significant and has declined. Care, by contrast, remains an important part of what most transnational families provide, although practices of ‘caring about’ are more prevalent than hands-on ‘caring for’. Counter to optimistic accounts of transnational family care in the literature, we argue that the difficulties and challenges for older people of being cared for by distant family members are fundamental, and strong transnational family ties are not an inevitable outcome of migration.

scholarly journals Generationenbeziehungen im Alter: Türkische Familien in der Türkei und in Westeuropa

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Helen Baykara-Krumme
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Spatial Distance ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
Frequency Of Contact ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
New Perspective

This paper explores the consequences of international migration on family relationships of elderly migrants from a new perspective: It compares intergenerational relationships among migrants from Turkey who live in Europe with those among non-migrants who never went abroad and, as a third group, transnational families. This study draws from the international LineUp Survey “Migration Histories of Turks in Europe”. Dependent variables are the frequency of contact, mutual support exchange patterns and family values as reported by the adult children. Findings indicate more intense intergenerational relationships in migrant families as compared to families in Turkey, but lower agreement with norms on intergenerational solidarity among the former. Whereas differences in behavior can be explained almost completely by compositional differences, multivariate analyses suggest persisting divergences in attitudes. Transnational families show the lowest degree of intergenerational solidarity which can be explained by the large spatial distance. By tendency, the findings indicate a change in values, but overall continuity in behavior patterns in the course of an international migration. Zusammenfassung Dieser Beitrag nähert sich der Frage nach den Auswirkungen einer internationalen Migration auf die Generationenbeziehungen älterer Menschen aus einer neuen Perspektive: Verglichen werden die Beziehungen in türkeistämmigen Familien in Westeuropa mit Familien in der Türkei sowie, als dritte Gruppe, transnationalen Familien. Die Datengrundlage bildet die internationale LineUp- Studie „Migration Histories of Turks in Europe“. Zielvariablen sind familienbezogene Werteinstellungen sowie Kontakthäufigkeit und gegenseitige Unterstützungsleistungen aus Sicht der erwachsenen Kinder. Migrantenfamilien zeigen in den Verhaltensmustern intensivere Beziehungen als Familien in der Türkei, allerdings stellen diese Unterschiede nahezu vollständig Kompositionseffekte dar. Unterschiede in den Werteeinstellungen, mit geringerer normativer Solidarität in Migrantenfamilien, bleiben dagegen auch in multivariaten Analysen tendenziell bestehen. Transnationale Familien weisen die geringste Generationensolidarität auf, was auf die große Wohnentfernung zurückzuführen ist. Die Befunde geben tendenziell Hinweise auf einen Wertewandel in der Migration bei weitgehender Kontinuität der Verhaltensmuster.

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