scholarly journals Baldassar Loretta, Merla Laura, Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care. Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-211
Author(s):  
Carlotta Monini
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Transnational Families

A production of education migrants: A case study of South Korean transnational families in Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunjung Lee ◽  
Marjorie Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Source Country ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Source Countries

This article critically examines the close tie between host and source countries in producing education migration. Using South Korea and Canada as a case study, our analysis illustrates how the gradual granting/limiting of citizenship to education migrants is ingrained in social policy which contributes to the nation-building of the host country while relying on ‘foreign’ income from the source country, impinging on family life (i.e. splitting family structure trans-nationally), and risking social integration. Although the actors are changed from labor migrants to education migrants the same dynamic of excluding migrants from citizenship and distinguishing worthy migrants from non-worthy migrants remains unchanged.

scholarly journals Dynamics of change in transnational families ̶ Biographical perspectives on family figurations between Spain and Ecuador

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-2019) ◽  
pp. 264-286
Author(s):  
Christian Schramm
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Sudden Change ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
National Society ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Transnational Social Space ◽  
Self Presentations

This paper explores the figurational process in transnational families through the study of the biographical self-presentations and the life courses of family members who live apart (in Bilbao, Spain and Guayaquil, Ecuador) but remain interdependent. It asks which factors inside and outside the family figuration influence the negotiation of the fragile power balances along gender and generational lines, with what effect for the structure of positions, family norms, mutual expectations and the division of tasks. Special attention is given to the deep financial and economic crisis affecting Spain between 2008 and 2014 and how this sudden change of the context in one national society impacts the transnational family life. Results highlight the importance of the long-term pre-migration family figurational process for the way transnational family life is being shaped. They also show how a variety of influencing factors, observed during the migration period and located in different national societies and the transnational social space, is intertwined with the logic of this long-term process.

scholarly journals Transnational families as seen thought the prism of the experiences of children growing up in them

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Nosek-Kozłowska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Family Experiences ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Trip Time ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Economic Migration

Economic migrations are a phenomenon that extends to many Polish families, causing changes in their structure and functioning. The effects of migration that affect the lives of children and young people brought up in transnational families seem to be particularly important. Children from transnational families have specific family experiences because they are related to the economic migration of one of the parents, which is associated with his longer absence. The motives for the trip, time of separation, and everyday life in each transnational family are different, therefore children from these families have various life experiences and create images of family life in various ways.

Untold Transnational Family Life on the Sonora–Arizona Border

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Sotomayor-Peterson ◽  
Ana A. Lucero-Liu
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
The Us ◽  
Current Sample

Research on transnational families mostly assumes long physical distances and long periods of separation. However, transnational families are diverse and reconfigure in a multitude of ways. The US–Mexican border in Arizona is historically a fluid one, where contact between families is a potential. This possibility of physical contact on a semi-regular basis makes the current sample unique from other transnational families. Using exploratory and descriptive analysis, this chapter provides a portrait of family life for migrant families along the Arizona–Sonora border with the goal of illustrating the diversity of family life for transnational families. Study findings suggest multiple family configurations, including transborder families (with members living within 60 miles of the border on either side) who have frequent physical contact and transnational families with long physical separations and little physical contact. Various aspects of family life (e.g., parenting) between transborder and transnational families are also compared.

Parenting From Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

The definition of family as a conjugal group consisting of parents and children living in the same household is in the process of a profound reworking, one that includes the constellation of family life that exists around the world. Increased migration and mobility have challenged traditional notions of what constitutes a family, yet much mainstream research relies on past notions of a cohesive unit under one domicile. Many families today are separated across distance and maintain ties in a multitude of ways. And although researchers have increasingly paid attention to this new picture of the family, much of this work has focused on transnational families separated in the context of overseas economic migration. In fact, family separation and long-distance parenting result from a multitude of reasons undertaken in various circumstances. This volume presents work from scholars who collectively show reasons that motivate parenting across distance, how families cope with separation and maintain ties, the impact of separation on family members, and how family is redefined and reconfigured in these various settings. By better understanding how we parent from a distance, this volume synthesizes ideas of kinship, relationships, and bonding and helps readers broaden their own ideas of parenting and family life.

scholarly journals Transnational families in the light of the practice-based approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-129
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Szyszka
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Transnational Parenting

Today, international migration is one of the main factors that determine functioning of families. Transnational families and transnational parenting are becoming increasingly more common and have been gaining considerable interest of researchers and social practitioners. One perspective that may be useful for examining transnational families is the practice-based approach. The concepts put forward by Morgan and Finch (‘doing’ and ‘displaying’ family) help to analyse families not as structures, but as everyday practices which constitute them (Morgan) and which must be associated with a system of meanings to be displayed (Finch). In the article, the analysis of transnational family practices will focus on the ‘tools’ for displaying (Finch) that are characteristic of transnational family life, and it will be based on the results of Polish and international studies. The article will discuss the tools proposed by Finch, such as physical objects or the use of narratives, as well as the use of technology in communication and taking care of children, as these practices are specific to transnational families. Those ‘tools’ for displaying show that transnational families are flexible, they are constantly happening, and by being embedded in broader systems of meanings, they become acceptable.

scholarly journals Young Connected Migrants and Non-Normative European Family Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koen Leurs
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Migrant Studies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
Digital Cultures ◽  
European Family

In the face of the contemporary so-called “European refugee crisis,”' the dichotomies of bodies that are naturalized into technology usage and the bodies that remain alienated from it betray the geographic, racial, and gendered discriminations that digital technologies, despite their claims at neutrality and flatness, continue to espouse. This article argues that “young electronic diasporas” (ye-diasporas) (Donà, 2014) present us with an unique view on how Europe is reimagined from below, as people stake out a living across geographies. The main premise is that young connected migrants' cross-border practices shows they ‘do family' in a way that does not align with the universal European, normative expectations of European family life. The author draws on three symptomatic accounts of young connected migrants that are variably situated geo-politically: 1) Moroccan-Dutch youth in the Netherlands; 2) stranded Somalis awaiting family reunification in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and, 3) working, middle, and upper-class young people of various ethnic and class backgrounds living in London. Narratives shared by members of all three groups indicate meta-categories of the ‘migrant,' ‘user,' and ‘e-diaspora' urgently need to be de-flattened. To do this de-flattening work, new links between migrant studies, feminist and postcolonial theory and digital cultures are forged. In an era of increasing digital connectivity and mobility, transnational families are far from deterritorialized – boundaries and insurmountable distances are often forcibly and painfully felt.

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