The Family in Dispute: Insiders and Outsiders

Grillo, Ralph

doi:10.1017/9789048501533.002

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“…20 Such an approach, according to Go (2013) "would track the processes and relations between diverse but connected spaces in the making and remaking of modernity" (p. 41, emphasis in original). Relational thinking corresponds to the anti-essentialist perspectives on culture advanced by anthropologists who call for a processual view of culture as dynamic and ever changing, which serves as an alternative to structural-functionalist understandings that view culture as fixed (Vertovec 2011;Hannerz 1999;Grillo 2019). The application of a relational anti-essentialist cultural lens offers an epistemic break from substantialist structural functionalist frameworks that have unwittingly reified the nation-state as a static agent that can retain the sovereign power to expel subaltern non-citizen and citizen others.…”

Section: A Relational Socio-cultural Analytic Lensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Mobilities of Indigenous Migrant Youth across the Americas

Gil-García,

Akalin,

Bové

et al. 2024

Social Sciences

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Enhanced immigration enforcement measures are now a dominant practice throughout the world. The concept of transnationalism, used by scholars to illuminate the complex dynamics these measures have across nation-state borders, has been critiqued for its replication of methodological nationalism—the assumption that the nation-state is a natural social and political form of the modern world. How then can migration scholars deepen the understanding of the mobilities of migrant children and youth without replicating methodological nationalism? We propose a relational socio-cultural analytic that synthesizes settler colonial theory and the theory of racialized legal status to comprehend the complex experiences of Indigenous migrant Maya youth and families throughout the Americas. Our use of a relational critical comparative analysis challenges structural functionalist approaches that limit the study migration dynamics within nation-state contexts, which can unwittingly sustain national membership in a state(s) as an aspirational emblem of belonging. We explore how Indigenous Maya experience and challenge the meaning of statelessness and the spillover effects of immigration enforcement measures along the US–Mexico and Mexico–Guatemala borders. We argue that a relational socio-cultural analytic lens serves as a powerful tool for understanding how nation-states co-produce stateless Indigenous populations and how these populations persist throughout the Americas and the world.

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Section: A Relational Socio-cultural Analytic Lensmentioning

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Understanding the Mobilities of Indigenous Migrant Youth across the Americas

Gil-García,

Akalin,

Bové

et al. 2024

Social Sciences

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“…Policies and many studies on family and family migration reflect a perspective on society and family from the nation‐state–centered point of view and are thus trapped in methodological nationalism (Wimmer & Glick‐Schiller, 2002). The policies are shaped mainly by Western culture assumptions on marriage and family and framed by the boundaries of belonging to racialized and gendered imagined communities (Beck & Beck‐Gernsheim, 2010; Bonjour & de Hart, 2013; Bonjour & Duyvendak, 2018; Grillo, 2008; Jeholm & Bissenbakker, 2019; Kofman, 2004; van Walsum, 2008). This manifests in the existence of income, housing, age, and integration exam requirements (Bonjour & Kraler, 2015; Pellander, 2021; Strik et al, 2013).…”

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Birth of a virtual community: Supporting Turkish couples' migration duringCOVID‐19

MUYAN>

Rittersberger‐Tılıç

2023

Family Relations

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Objective: This research aimed to understand legal and bureaucratic intricacies couples from Turkey and the Netherlands had to face in their marriage migration processes during the COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing the role of a virtual community in developing coping strategies of multiple agents (partners, as well as lawyers and moderators as third parties). Background: The restrictive requirements for family migration in the Netherlands, which reflect a nation-statecentered point of view, had consequences on the marriage migration of Turks. Methods: Legal and policy analysis between the years 2004 and 2021 and a netnography covering March 2021 through April 2022 are used. Dutch and EU case law analysis, participant observation in the Facebook group "Hollanda Aile Birles ¸imi/Gezinshereniging" (The Netherlands Family Reunification), and semistructured interviews with the members of the group are employed. Results: The interactions in the Facebook group went beyond simple information dissemination and led to the emergence of a virtual community. It served for the development of intimacy and informal expertise and constituted a venue for developing strategies to cope with bureaucratic, legal, and personal hurdles. Conclusion: During COVID-19, the virtual community enabled individuals involved in marriage migration to counter the legal and policy framework.autonomy of migration, COVID-19 pandemic, EU law, Turkish marriage migration in the Netherlands, virtual community Marriage migration remains a hot issue because it is one of the areas where private life meets national policy. Couples intending to unite across national borders must fulfill several

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“…Translocal familyhood hence includes a wide spectrum of intimate relations that people practice. The boundaries between family members and others close to them, such as lovers, friends or neighbours, are not necessarily strictly defined (Grillo 2008;Hakkarainen 2015). As part of their mobility people negotiate their family memberships, social relations and belongings.…”

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Migration and Families in East and North Europe

Assmuth,

Aure,

Hakkarainen

et al. 2023

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What are translocal families and what are their lifelines like? The theoretical section of the chapter explains translocality, translocal familyhood and lifelines, the three key concepts of the book. Based mainly on research carried out for the Inequalities of Mobility: Relatedness and Belonging of Transnational Families in the Nordic Migration Space project, the authors ponder how emotion, multiple belonging and intersectional inequalities play out in various ways in the lives of translocal families. This approach grasps the complexity of translocal family lives in the East and North European context, where the authors have conducted multilingual and interdisciplinary case studies across national borders. Methodologically the chapter discusses how intersectional analysis reveals the coming together of family lifelines and inequalities and looks at how gender, generation, class and translocality create, influence and reinforce the strengths and vulnerabilities of familyhood. This section discusses the wide variety of qualitative methods the authors have used to analyse translocal familyhood: in-depth thematic and open interviewing, extended research conversations, photography, analysis of media materials, participant observation, and long-term intensive research engagement with families. Finally, the chapter introduces the different sections of the book and each chapter.

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The Family in Dispute: Insiders and Outsiders

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Understanding the Mobilities of Indigenous Migrant Youth across the Americas

Understanding the Mobilities of Indigenous Migrant Youth across the Americas

Birth of a virtual community: Supporting Turkish couples' migration duringCOVID‐19

Migration and Families in East and North Europe

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