Making the emotional connection: transnational eldercare circulation within Sri Lankan-Australian transnational families

Silva, Menusha De

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2017.1339018

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“…Furthermore, the number of siblings is another component that may affect the coordination of care activities and exchange of information to navigate healthcare and institutional resources, where research documented “local siblings” being granted respite from filial responsibilities when migrant children returns to visit (Kalavar et al 2020 ; Kilkey and Merla 2014 ; Schroeder-Butterfill and Schonheinz 2019 ). On a similar note, the gendered aspect within caregiving has been widely cited and remains relevant in transnational caregiving, where emotional and hands-on components of care are viewed to be less challenging and are associated with daughters more than sons (De Silva 2018 ; Hequembourg and Brallier 2005 ; Russell 2007 ).…”

Section: What Is Caregiving At a Distance?mentioning

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Remote Technologies and Filial Obligations at a Distance: New Opportunities and Ethical Challenges

Tian,

Jotterand,

Wangmo

2023

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The coupled growth of population aging and international migration warrants attention on the methods and solutions available to adult children living overseas to provide distance caregiving for their aging parents. Despite living apart from their parents, the transnational informal care literature has indicated that first-generation immigrants remain committed to carry out their filial caregiving obligations in extensive and creative ways. With functions to remotely access health information enabled by emergency, wearable, motion, and video sensors, remote monitoring technologies (RMTs) may thus also allow these international migrants to be alerted in sudden changes and remain informed of their parent’s state of health. As technological solutions for caregiving, RMTs could allow independent living for older persons while any unusual deviations from normal health patterns are detected and appropriately supported. With a vignette of a distance care arrangement, we engage with concepts such as filial piety, in-absentia caregiving distress, and the social exchange theory, as well as the upholding of shifting cultural ideals to illustrate the complex dynamic of the satisfaction and quality of the informal caregiving relationship. This paper extends the traditional ethical issues in technology-aided caregiving, such as autonomy, privacy, and justice, to be considered within the context of distance care. We also posit newer ethical considerations such as consent in power imbalances, harm to caregivers, and stigma. These known and new ethical issues aim to encourage further ethically conscious design and use of RMTs to support distance care for older persons.

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Section: What Is Caregiving At a Distance?mentioning

confidence: 98%

Remote Technologies and Filial Obligations at a Distance: New Opportunities and Ethical Challenges

Tian,

Jotterand,

Wangmo

2023

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“…In focusing on migrants' connections to family members over a long distance, some map emotional transnationalism, which describes the way emotions, such as frustration and guilt, are provoked through family contact. Transnational family members experience such emotions as a result of not being able to support family left behind (Takeda, 2012b) or when their family members' needs are not met (De Silva, 2018). These studies with regard to emotion and migration illustrate the significance of subjective aspects of the migration process, further demonstrating that studying migrants' emotions can provide a deeper understanding of the migration process.…”

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Intimate mobilities—International (transnational) marriage and migration: Japanese marriage migrants floating between Japan and Korea

Takeda

2023

Sociology Compass

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In the past decade, intense mobility within Asia has led to increased international marriage (kokusai kekkon) in the region. A growing number of scholars have explored this phenomenon—called the intimate part of Asia—with a focus on foreign brides from emerging economies. Concerning international marriage between Japanese and Koreans, most research focuses on the Korean wives of Japanese husbands who reside in Japan, and little research has been conducted on the Japanese wives of Korean husbands. In this study, the postmigration experiences of Japanese marriage migrant women in South Korea are explored. Semistructured interviews were conducted in Korea with 13 participants. Drawing on the interview data, this article elucidates the trajectories of Japanese marriage migrants, focusing on subjective elements. The participants' accounts demonstrate that their experiences were intertwined with the media, politics, gender roles, parenting ideologies, and family relations. Their various emotional responses underline the ways such factors have shaped their lives.

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“…Although Wilding (2006) has suggested that online technologies have overcome some of the gender divide in transnational family matters, because men's increasing involvement via email relieves some of the 'kinwork' traditionally done by women (p. 135), research suggests that female migrants still feel more responsibility for transnational caregiving, particularly in-person or emotional care, and that migration-related guilt may be gendered (Baldassar, 2015;De Silva, 2017;Vermot, 2015). Migrant women's guilt, Baldassar suggests, is 'a ubiquitous and ever-present feeling of not having adequately met kinship obligations to care' (p. 87).…”

Section: Migrant Maternal Isolation Homesickness Guilt and Culturalmentioning

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Glocalised Motherhood: Sociality and Affect in Migrant Mothers’ Online Communities

Veazey

2019

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture a

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This article explores the importance of relationships between migrant mothers in Australia through the lens of Facebook groups created by and for migrant mothers, referred to here as glocalised maternal communities. The combination of migration and motherhood creates a dual rupture in mothers' social networks, leading to isolation and emotional challenges. Drawing on thematic analysis of interviews conducted with 41 mothers from a range of migrant communities (including Indian, Malaysian, Swedish, German, Brazilian and British), living in Melbourne and Sydney, I investigate why migrant mothers have responded to these challenges by creating and participating in locally-based, social media such as Facebook for mothers with a shared national or cultural identity. These communities provide resources and support for women's migrant maternal projects, for example relational settlement and cultural transmission, and also meet women's own needs for intimacy, friendship, and support. From an analysis of sociality, emotion, identity and relationality in these glocalised maternal communities, I develop a framework of multilayered and multimodal migrant maternal sociality, including a re-formulation of Haythornthwaite's concept of 'latent ties' (2005) to highlight the affective benefits of online communities.

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Making the emotional connection: transnational eldercare circulation within Sri Lankan-Australian transnational families

Cited by 22 publications

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Remote Technologies and Filial Obligations at a Distance: New Opportunities and Ethical Challenges

Remote Technologies and Filial Obligations at a Distance: New Opportunities and Ethical Challenges

Intimate mobilities—International (transnational) marriage and migration: Japanese marriage migrants floating between Japan and Korea

Glocalised Motherhood: Sociality and Affect in Migrant Mothers’ Online Communities

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