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Drotbohm, Heike; Alber, Erdmute

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“…Embodied subjectivity, relational affinity, and culturally embedded life course patterns and practices intensify or shift broader forms of hierarchy and inequality (Drotbohm and Alber ; Locke et al ), which has the power to reshape identity and reorient the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion. Justice in this broader sense is usually presented through the perception of reality and thereafter reactions toward each other.…”

Section: Adoption Of Law Driven By Emotion and Cultural Conceptsmentioning

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Justice, Emotion, and Belonging: Legal Consciousness in a Taiwanese Family Conflict

Wang¹

2019

Law Soc Rev

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This case study of a family conflict in Taiwan explores how legal consciousness is emotionally driven, intersubjective, and dependent on relational factors that are deeply connected to an individual's perception of the self–other relationship and affinity therein. As the members of the Lee family negotiated emotionally on issues involving elder care and inheritance, their adoption of law was at times absent, at others influential, but always shaped by certain Chinese concepts such as zìjǐrén (自己人), which constitute the emotional complex of belonging in Taiwan. This cultural patterning identifies a person as included, accepted, and respected by the group and when in conflict, is the driving force behind a disputants' pursuit of an identity that places them on moral high ground as a form of justice. Rather than depending on rational decision making or legal norms, their legal consciousness was determined by the sense of self, rectitude, emotion, and subjectivity.

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Section: Adoption Of Law Driven By Emotion and Cultural Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Justice, Emotion, and Belonging: Legal Consciousness in a Taiwanese Family Conflict

Wang¹

2019

Law Soc Rev

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“…In other words, it complements existing kinship relations between children and parents, grandparents and grandchildren, and so forth. 'These types of relationships are likewise characterized by society-specific expectations of both care and practices, the latter fulfilling, but eventually also neglecting, these expectations' (Drotbohm and Alber 2015). The second approach suggests that 'care not only complements and confirms biological kinship, it also provides an alternative way of creating kinship in the absence of biological ties' (Drotbohm and Alber 2015, emphasis added).…”

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“…The role of care in the creation, maintenance and affirmation of kinship takes on a special meaning in migrant families (Drotbohm and Alber 2015) for at least two reasons. The first is that the separation of generations by migration very often confronts migrant parents with a work-life balance dilemma over how to arrange childcare when there are no relatives around to help in the new country.…”

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“…Another example of how the children and carers integrated into each other's social lives (Drotbohm and Alber 2015) and how the children felt they belonged to the carer's family network was described by 17-year-old Minh, who recalled that he used to sign his textbooks in school as Minh Kos, instead of Minh Truong. He thought that because his grandmother's name was Kosová, he must have had the surname Kos after her.…”

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Grandparents, kinship ties, and belonging after migration: the perspective of second‐generation grandchildren

Souralová

2019

Global Networks

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In this article, I investigate the roles of grandparents for second‐generation immigrants who live with their parents in a different country from their grandparents. I draw on in‐depth interviews with second‐generation Vietnamese immigrants living in the Czech Republic, where they are very often raised by Czech caregivers. The carers and the children are joined through the process of caregiving and become grandmothers and grandchildren to each other. The analysis focuses on how the interviewees make sense of, interpret, and understand their roles as grandchildren vis‐à‐vis their Czech and Vietnamese grandmothers. It shows how, after migration, the kinship ties are performed, negotiated, and reproduced on a micro level of everyday life, with tasks of caring, homeland visits, and a transnational/face‐to‐face maintenance of intimacy. The article concludes that grandparents play an important role in the grandchildren's sense of belonging both to their family kin and to the homeland.

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“…Analysing these ‘caring claims’ provides an alternative starting‐point to conventional approaches to ‘care’ as based on reciprocity between kin or as commoditized market exchanges (see Drotbohm & Alber ). Instead, the notion of ‘caring claims’ breaks up the common‐sense anthropological continuum of self‐interest, reciprocity, and altruism (see Lambek ) by raising questions about motivation in anthropological analyses of belonging (Carsten ; Faubion ; Strathern ).…”

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Caring claims and the relational self across time: grandmothers overcoming reproductive crises in rural China

Bruckermann

2017

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Revisiting the notion of relational personhood from a Chinese perspective, this article explores the premises of exchange underlying discourses of care, reproduction, and kinship in anthropology. Grandmothers contribute much of the care needed for reproduction of the next generation of children in the Chinese countryside. Their motivation to contribute care to secure offspring stems from the frustration of their past familial desires, and their hopes for transcendence through reproduction in the future. Grandmothers secure claims to offspring through their care between the interstices of the state bureaucracy and patrilineal norms. This care is not simply nurturing but can also become coercive and competitive. As Chinese grandmothers overcome past reproductive hardships by claiming future offspring through care, their selfhood not only becomes distributed through exchange with others, but also is dispersed across time in relation to past experiences and future aspirations of the self.

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Cited by 28 publications

References 28 publications

Justice, Emotion, and Belonging: Legal Consciousness in a Taiwanese Family Conflict

Justice, Emotion, and Belonging: Legal Consciousness in a Taiwanese Family Conflict

Grandparents, kinship ties, and belonging after migration: the perspective of second‐generation grandchildren

Caring claims and the relational self across time: grandmothers overcoming reproductive crises in rural China

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