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Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care - Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life (Hardcover)
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Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care - Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
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Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their
distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in
transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the
transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to
question the predominantly negative conceptualisations of this type
of family. It re-conceptualises transnational care as a set of
activities that circulates between home and host countries - across
generations - and fluctuates over the life course, going beyond a
focus on mother-child relationships to include multidirectional
exchanges across generations and between genders. It highlights, in
particular, how the sense of belonging in transnational families is
sustained by the reciprocal, though uneven, exchange of caregiving,
which binds members together in intergenerational networks of
reciprocity and obligation, love and trust that are simultaneously
fraught with tension, contest and relations of unequal power. The
chapters that make up this volume cover a rich array of
ethnographic case studies including analyses of transnational
families who circulate care between developing nations in Africa,
Latin America and Asia to wealthier nations in North America,
Europe and Australia. There are also examples of intra- and extra-
European, Australian and North American migration, which involve
the mobility of both the unskilled and working class as well as the
skilled middle and aspirational classes.
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