Salvadoran Migrants in Australia: An Analysis of Transnational Families’ Capability to Care across Borders

Merla, Laura

doi:10.1111/imig.12024

Cited by 49 publications

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“…This reflects the findings of scholars who have looked at gender and skilled migration in various contexts (see for example , Ho 2006;Ryan 2007;Raghuram 2004). Skilled migration can be associated with downward social mobility and economic instability (Datta et al 2009;Merla 2012). This is particularly pronounced for women, resulting in under-employment, a shift away from the chosen career or retraining, and can add additional pressure to childcare responsibilities (Meares 2010).…”

Section: Westcott and Robertson: Childcaresupporting

confidence: 63%

Childcare, Mobility Decisions and ‘Staggered’ Migration

Westcott¹,

Robertson²

2017

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Migration to Australia is increasingly ‘multi-step’ or ‘staggered’ (Robertson 2013), often involving extended periods on temporary visas before permanent residency is achieved. This paper explores how the uncertainty around long-term migration outcomes that structure staggered migration impacts on how migrants’ make decisions about mobility that concern their children and their care. This paper utilises data from in-depth narrative interviews with Asian migrants in Australia who have experienced ‘staggered’ migration across multiple visa categories. It explores three key mobility decisions migrants make around children: bringing their children to Australia; mobility of families and family members for child-care arrangements; and considering their children’s future mobility and citizenship. We argue that multiple factors come into play in these decisions about children, mobility and care. Specific policy constraints of temporary visas (such as lack of access to subsidised social services or family reunion) shape options, but migrants’ overall sense of social and economic security in the long-term is also significant.<br /><br />

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Section: Westcott and Robertson: Childcaresupporting

confidence: 63%

Childcare, Mobility Decisions and ‘Staggered’ Migration

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Robertson²

2017

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“…At a macro-level, we have built on our own work (Merla and Baldassar, 2011;Merla, 2015) and its further elaboration with Majella Kilkey (Kilkey and Merla, 2014; see also Merla, 2014a) to show how institutional contexts shape the 'capability' (Robeyns, 2003) of transnational family members to circulate care across borders. The specific position that individuals occupy within the migration, welfare, gendered care and social employment regimes of their home and host countries plays a key role in facilitating or hindering their access to the temporal, material, and social resources that are needed to engage in transnational care practices.…”

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Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts

Merla

Baldassar

2016

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In this paper, Laura Merla and Loretta Baldassar address some of the key critiques that were formulated in this symposium on the 'care circulation" perspective these two authors offered in their edited volume entitled "Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care". Here, they focus in particular on three themes: care as social capital, the need to bring back 'the political', and the (dis)-embodiment of care practices. They highlight in particular that 'care chains' and 'care circulation' should not be seen as opposite, but rather as complementary perspectives. Keywords: gender; care; social capital; transnational families; social reproduction; body; ICT Resumen. Reflexiones finales. La «circulación del cuidado» en un mundo cada vez más móvil: nuevas reflexionesEste simposio ofrece una discusión crítica de las lógicas y dinámicas en torno a la nueva perspectiva de la «circulación del cuidado» presentadas por Loretta Baldassar y Laura Merla en su volumen titulado Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care. En esta contribución, las autoras abordan tres temas: el cuidado como capital social, la necesidad de recuperar «lo político» y la (des)-corporalidad de las prácticas de cuidado. Subrayan el hecho que ambos enfoques, las «cadenas globales» y la «circulación del cuidado», no deberían verse como opuestos, sino más bien como perspectivas complementarias.

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“…Ryan et al (2009) suggested that while Polish migrants in London were not able to provide physical care, they sent financial remittances back home to support aged and child care. They and Merla (2015) also noted that migrants and their left-behind families provided mutual emotional support through various communication mechanisms.…”

Section: Transnational Family Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bonizzoni (2015) found that left-behind adult children of migrants are more actively involved in transnational familial linkages than non-adult children. Merla (2015) found that labour market conditions in destination countries, restrictive visa regulations, and inadequate access to community facilities restricted the strength of transnational familial linkages. At the macro level, studies have suggested that transnational family linkages are strengthened by more affordable travel and communication technologies (Baldassar, 2007;Carling, Menjivar, & Schmalzbauer, 2012), policies on eliminating barriers to reunification in countries of origin and destination (Zentgraf & Chinchilla, 2012), and public interventions such as funding and social services to spatially separated families (Baldassar, 2007;Zentgraf & Chinchilla, 2012).…”

Section: Transnational Family Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transnationalism, diaspora, and development: A purposive review of the literature

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In view of the observation of some scholars and policymakers that contemporary international migration and its developmental effects are better understood from a transnational perspective, this paper attempts a systematic review of the impact of the transnational perspective on the relationship between migration and development in the fields of migration studies, population studies, and demography. Based on a study of 666 publications on transnationalism, diaspora, and development derived using keyword searches of the Web of Science database and a more in‐depth review of a subset of 60 influential papers on transnational linkages, the paper discusses five types of transnational linkages—familial, political, economic, sociocultural, and subjective. While the influence of transnationalism has been profound, stimulating an innovative body of work on changing migration patterns, the linkages between diaspora and their homelands, and the impact of these linkages on development, the review also identified significant gaps, namely, the inadequate attention to generating evidence of the developmental impact of transnational migration, particular in the Global South; the lack of consideration for the way diaspora from single homelands is internally differentiated and distributed across multiple transnational social spaces; and the need to identify data sources for more robust quantitative analyses of the multiple linkages between diaspora and development.

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Salvadoran Migrants in Australia: An Analysis of Transnational Families’ Capability to Care across Borders

Cited by 49 publications

References 12 publications

Childcare, Mobility Decisions and ‘Staggered’ Migration

Childcare, Mobility Decisions and ‘Staggered’ Migration

Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts

Transnationalism, diaspora, and development: A purposive review of the literature

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