Expanding transnational care networks: comparing caring for families with caring for homes

Schaab, Titus; Wagner, Lauren

doi:10.1111/glob.12257

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“…This does not hold only in an instrumental sense, as is typical of an investment aiming to save money, diversify risk, gain profit or transfer wealth across generations (Osili 2004). The point is that while the house may not turn into a migrant's home in the short term, it is invariably conceived, desired, and tentatively materialised as such (López 2015;Schaab and Wagner 2020). Whatever its actual function (s), it is inherently meaningful as long as it is expected to host its builders and owners in the future (what we might refer to as a deeper rationale).…”

Section: Temporalitymentioning

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On the theoretical potential of ‘remittance houses’: toward a research agenda across emigration contexts

Boccagni

Erdal

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Migrant houses in countries of origin, referred to as 'remittance houses', are a visible marker of emigration. Case studies from diverse geographic contexts have explored their functions. Unlike the surrounding built environment, these houses span the local and transnational realities of migrant lives, while being grounded in specific places. We argue, first, for the need to move beyond locally-oriented reifying descriptions of what is a global phenomenon; second, for the need to analyse migrant remittance houses as part of a broader agenda for unravelling the practical and emotional significance of 'home' in migration studies. The paper unveils the constitutive dimensions of migrant houses: their roles as symbols of migration; their significance as economic investments; their presence as physical structures necessitating follow-up locally; their function as second homes for holidays and reminders of (elusive) return migration. Researching remittance houses is a source of insights on questions of broader theoretical relevance, like the temporality of migration, the reach and sustainability of migrant transnationalism and the forms of cultural diffusion associated with it. This calls for a distinctive methodological agenda to advance research, based on a typology of transnational housing investments, which differentiates the locations, functions and rationales of migrant houses.

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Section: Temporalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, remittance houses should be appreciated as agents of transnational connectedness in their own right (Dalakoglou 2010;Schaab and Wagner 2020). They significantly affect the mobile interactions between migrants and their stayer counterparts.…”

Section: Cross-border Connectionsmentioning

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On the theoretical potential of ‘remittance houses’: toward a research agenda across emigration contexts

Boccagni

Erdal

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Therefore, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic makes it difficult to predict the course of future events. Further examination of social remittances during global crises has the potential to contribute to studies on transnational social protection practices (Lafleur & Romero, 2018 ; Schaab & Wagner, 2020 ). Moreover, the issue of informal practice exchange within transnational families and its effect on policy circulation and diffusion processes can also be of interest to researchers and policy makers in the context of limiting disinformation and promoting safety measures.…”

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Social remittances during COVID-19: on the “new normality” negotiated by transnational families

Galstyan

Գալստյան

2021

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Social remittances- the transfer of ideas, practices, and codes of behaviors- are a well-documented subject in migrant transnationalism literature and transnational family studies. However, the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak has generated unprecedented regulations around the world which require widening the conceptual basis of social remittances in a state of emergency. As the pandemic progresses, most countries require civilians to follow a number of norms deemed as the “new normality,” while other countries continue to operate under their “old normality,” with minor or no restrictions. As national pandemic policy responses vary across countries, transnational families live under different regimes of “normality.” In these settings, the study of transnational families offers a valuable opportunity to examine a special type of social remittances practiced during global crises, and analyze whether the exchange of rules, practices, and ideas across national borders has any impact on re-shaping and renegotiating pandemic-coping “new normality” practices for both migrants and their families. The paper is based on 13 in-depth interviews conducted with representatives from Armenian transnational families with migrant members in Russia, the Czech Republic, or Belarus. These countries provide a backdrop for an examination of social remittances among transnational families that we term “pandemic transnationalism.” The study shows that the circulation of safety rules and “good practices” actively shapes the everyday behavior of migrants and their families, their level of perceived danger towards the coronavirus, and their practical knowledge of safety measures. The latter are often harnessed in informal collective settings despite being in conflict with the obligations and regulations of their home society.

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“…Whether such houses are completed or not, taken care of or not, inhabited or not, they have something to 'say' on the reach, contents and durability of the transnational ties of their owners (Boccagni 2017a). A 'remittance house', as the recent literature shows, is central to the material, affective and moral economy of the interactions between migrants and their close family members, as long as the latter live in the context of origin (López 2015;Schaab and Wagner 2020). Its very existence testifies to migrants' economic and moral engagement to 'be there' in some way, and possibly return in the future.…”

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Transnational migration and homemaking

Boccagni¹

2022

Handbook on Transnationalism

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This chapter provides a conceptual overview of the social experience of home and of its significance for transnational migration studies. Home, as a material setting, a special relationship with place or a source of distinctive emotions and social practices , is significantly affected by human mobility across borders. It is also a unique research venue to investigate and compare the transnational side of migrant everyday lives . Much transnational literature argues for migrants' unprecedented connectedness with home (societies), or for their novel scope to retain a sense of home across borders or to emplace it in several locations simultaneously. However, these evocative claims are often disconnected from empirical research. The very notion of home has been subject to relatively little elaboration in a transnational optic. Yet, there is a remarkable potential in using home, literally and metaphorically, as a prism to investigate migrant ability to retain, circulate and emplace significant aspects of the "other worlds" they are connected to, while being physically away from them. The typical dilemmas of migrant transnationalism and some new conceptual developments out of a homemaking lens are eventually discussed.

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Expanding transnational care networks: comparing caring for families with caring for homes

Cited by 10 publications

References 64 publications

On the theoretical potential of ‘remittance houses’: toward a research agenda across emigration contexts

On the theoretical potential of ‘remittance houses’: toward a research agenda across emigration contexts

Social remittances during COVID-19: on the “new normality” negotiated by transnational families

Transnational migration and homemaking

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