Care at a Distance: Ukrainian and Ecuadorian Transnational Parenthood from Spain

Leifsen, Esben; Tymczuk, Alexander

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2012.646419

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“…Working hard and sending remittances can be seen as acts of love, of caring at a distance, as previous studies also argue [114–116]. Although some of the migrants in the study suffered from precarious working and living conditions, many said that the improved economic situation they gained through the migrant work made the tough times worth it.…”

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‘“For a better life …“ A study on migration and health in Nicaragua’

Gustafsson

2018

Global Health Action

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Background: Nicaraguans have migrated internally and internationally for centuries due to economic, political and sociocultural factors. Deficiencies in the country’s health care system have produced inequities in people’s access to health care and medicines. Remittances have become an important source of income, partly invested in health.Objectives: The overall aim of the study was to analyse migration–health relations in contemporary Nicaragua within a broader context of socio-economic transformations.Methods: The study uses a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative interview data and quantitative survey data.Results: The findings show that migration is commonly practised as a strategy for making a living and is related to the struggle for a better life. Health concerns are indirectly embedded in people’s mobile livelihoods, but also directly influence migration motives. Furthermore, migration involves both advantages and disadvantages for health. Physical and sexual violence can come to an end for migrating women, health care and medicine can become more accessible for internal migrants, and vulnerabilities caused by environmental disasters can be avoided by moving. Moreover, remittances can improve people’s everyday life and health. Yet migration can also be a stressful and health-damaging event. International migrants, particularly the undocumented, can have problems accessing health care, and also experience much danger at border crossings. Transnational families can suffer emotionally as well as physically due to separation. Findings from the survey show that family members of migrants do not rate their physical health as good as often as non-migrating families.Conclusions: The Nicaraguan population is not guaranteed its social rights of citizenship. This results in mobile livelihoods and the need for translocal social support (e.g. remittances). Migration can have both positive and negative effects on health for migrants and their family members; geographical distance and social differences are key to the outcome.

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‘“For a better life …“ A study on migration and health in Nicaragua’

Gustafsson

2018

Global Health Action

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“…7 This is especially true in the case of relatively short distance, low cost, accessible migration (often but not always "south-south"'). See also Leifsen and Tymczuk (2012), who describe how geographical distance structures carework by comparing Ukrainian and Ecuadorian migration to Spain. But agreement does not necessarily take away the fact that women's dependence on someone else's unstable earnings can cause stress and anxiety.…”

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“…This is especially true in the case of relatively short distance, low cost, accessible migration (often but not always “south‐south”'). See also Leifsen and Tymczuk (), who describe how geographical distance structures carework by comparing Ukrainian and Ecuadorian migration to Spain.…”

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Responsibility, Mobility, and Power: Translocal Carework Negotiations of Nicaraguan Families

Winters

2014

International Migration Review

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Recently, carework has emerged as a key area for exploring the gendered connections between migrants and their families “home,” providing insight into family‐level consequences of migration. However, the way carework shapes migration itself has not received due attention. Based on field research among Nicaraguan migrant families, this article explores the links between translocal carework and family migration decision‐making by connecting the concepts of transnational caregiving and power‐geometry of mobility to interpret fathers’ and female relatives’ carework involvement. In conclusion, the article highlights how translocal carework shapes family members’ access to mobility through ongoing negotiations of a wide range of responsibilities, indicating a possible direction for future explorations of migration.

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“…Research from Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe indicates that women labor migrants are stigmatized as neglectful mothers by the media, policymakers, and even family members (Asis, Huang, and Yeoh 2004;Dreby 2006;Hofmann and Buckley 2012;Hondagneu-Sotelo and Avila 1997;Keough 2006;Leifsen and Tymczuk 2012;Moran-Taylor 2008;Parrenas 2005;Piperno 2012). Mothers themselves are often highly conflicted over their decision to migrate (Gamburd 2000;Hondagneu-Sotelo and Avila 1997;Ishkanian 2002;Parrenas 2005).…”

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Does Gender Ideology Matter in Migration?

Hofmann

2014

International Journal of Sociology

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This article analyzes how patriarchal gender ideology, economic imperatives, and individual agency influence men's and women's migration decisions in the Republic of Georgia. Research on labor migration demonstrates both the empowering potential of migration for women and the tenacity of patriarchal norms and structures. These contradictory findings can be explained in part by differences in the households of origin of female migrants. Drawing on both a national survey of migration and thirty-four interviews with returned migrants and family members of migrants in two Georgian cities, I argue that women who migrate tend to come from households that are either more inclined to egalitarian beliefs or structured in such a way that women's migration provides the least possible challenge to patriarchal household organization. More traditional households are likely to send a male migrant. Although women's labor migration is becoming increasingly common in Georgia, women, particularly mothers, face practical constraints to migration that men do not, to the extent that some mothers remain home even when migration appears to be economically imperative. Because of the unique aspects of mothers' labor migration, the effects of labor migration on norms may vary widely across different contexts.

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Care at a Distance: Ukrainian and Ecuadorian Transnational Parenthood from Spain

Cited by 51 publications

References 13 publications

‘“For a better life …“ A study on migration and health in Nicaragua’

‘“For a better life …“ A study on migration and health in Nicaragua’

Responsibility, Mobility, and Power: Translocal Carework Negotiations of Nicaraguan Families

Does Gender Ideology Matter in Migration?

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