Transformaciones familiares en la experiencia migratoria ecuatoriana

Herrera, Gioconda; E., María Cristina Carrillo

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“…Judging from my case study on coastal Ecuador, as well as from the existing literature, parental (i.e., mostly maternal) emigration does induce a major rearrangement of children caregiving tasks. This typically results in other female kin – grandmothers first, then aunts and elder sisters – to gain a pivotal position, whatever the paternal contribution (Camacho & Hernández, ; Herrera & Carrillo, ). One could hardly assume, though, a systematic difference between migrant and non‐migrant households in terms of children's school attendance (or achievement), emotional wellbeing, deviance, and so forth.…”

Section: “Parentless” Children and Their Changing Care Arrangements Imentioning

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“…The very reception of remittances may reshape, in some respects, the pre‐existing lines of class stratification in the Ecuadorian social fabric. As emigration holds a potential for social mobility (Herrera & Carrillo, ), at least in terms of a temporary and displayed affluence, “emigrants’ family members are stigmatized as… nouveaux riches or a potential middle class that, in spite of its money, lacks cultural capital” (Soruco et al, : 6). Unsurprisingly, emigrants’ children are in turn assumed to be somehow disengaged from their peer groups – as a way of self‐distinction, or possibly due to their supposed expectation to join parents abroad.…”

Section: “Parentless” Children and Their Changing Care Arrangements Imentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The recent emergence of an “anti‐stigmatization” stance, in Ecuador, has helpfully deconstructed pathologizing stereotypes of migration‐related family changes (Herrera & Carrillo, ). That said, an emphasis on this aspect alone may lead to neglect the complex and contradictory emotions which do emerge in transnational family life (Skrbis, ).…”

Section: “Parentless” Children and Their Changing Care Arrangements Imentioning

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Migration and The Family Transformations It “Leaves Behind”: A Critical View From Ecuador

Boccagni

2013

The Latin Americanist

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Increasing awareness has been raised, in a transnational perspective, on the significant effects of an extended separation on the relationships between family members “here” and “there”. Widely debated, in this perspective, is the nexus between parental emigration and the social reproduction of those left behind, with particular respect to dependent children. My article explores along these lines the evolution of “after‐migration” intergenerational relationships in Ecuador. In this country a massive, mostly female‐led emigration has made the conditions of children left behind increasingly salient, whether for their peculiar vulnerability or the stigmatization they are subject to. Building on my analysis of the Ecuadorian case, I first investigate the changing intra‐family roles, relationships and expectations that emerge in Ecuadorian families after mothers' emigration; second, the interaction between informal caregivers' and emigrant parents' initiatives in providing care to left‐behind kids; third, the prospects for the lenses of care drain and transnational caregiving to be reconciled with each other as a requisite for more inclusive policies. Overall, this article argues for the need to appreciate the structure of opportunities of home societies as a major influence on transnational family living, and as an optic for advancing the relevant theoretical debate.

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Section: “Parentless” Children and Their Changing Care Arrangements Imentioning

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Section: “Parentless” Children and Their Changing Care Arrangements Imentioning

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Section: “Parentless” Children and Their Changing Care Arrangements Imentioning

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Migration and The Family Transformations It “Leaves Behind”: A Critical View From Ecuador

Boccagni

2013

The Latin Americanist

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“…En primer lugar se plantea el dilema de si la migración femenina estaría en la raíz de rupturas y procesos de desestructuración familiar o si más bien se asiste a la conformación de otro tipo de familias, las llamadas familias transnacionales, que mantienen lazos materiales y afectivos entre sus miembros, así como mecanismos de toma de decisiones conjuntas sobre el futuro de las familias (Bryceson y Vuorela, 2003;Herrera y Carrillo, 2009). Esta perspectiva sirvió para analizar las nuevas formas de materializar a la familia distante, de fortalecer sus lazos y aquellos con la comunidad y de resaltar la formación selectiva de lazos emocionales y materiales sobre la base de conside-…”

Section: ¿Las Familias Transnacionales 3 Siguen Siendo Homogéneas?unclassified

“…Análisis en esa línea son los de Sorensen (2008) Herrera y Carrillo (2009) Carrillo (2008) y Reist y Riaño (2008. ¿Cuáles han sido las bondades del concepto de familias trasnacionales desde la perspectiva de gé-nero?…”

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Género y migración internacional en la experiencia latinoamericana. De la visibilización del campo a una presencia selectiva

Herrera

2012

Política Soc.

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RESuMENEn los últimos diez años la producción de trabajos sobre género y migración ha crecido enormemente, aunque muchos de estos trabajos signifiquen, sobre todo, el abordaje de la experiencia de las mujeres en los procesos migratorios. Ya no podemos entonces hablar de la invisibilidad del tema, tal como se planteaba en los balances efectuados hasta hace diez o quince años. Este artículo pretende plantear tres ideas sobre la presencia selectiva de los estudios sobre migración y género partiendo de las investigaciones sobre migración ecuatoriana. La primera idea es que esta relación entre género y migración no es tan nueva y que debemos revisitar los viejos debates sobre género y transformaciones de la estructura agraria que se produjeron en América Latina y, principalmente, en la región andina en los años 1970 y 1980 para entender los cambios ocurridos con la migración internacional, sobre todo, en las experiencias de circuitos migratorios en donde se enlazan procesos de migración interna y externa. La segunda idea consiste en señalar que un paso fundamental observado en los estudios sobre género y migración es el giro de una mirada de la experiencia femenina a intentos por analizar el carácter generizado de las instituciones y los procesos migratorios: el mercado laboral, las políticas migratorias, las estrategias de reproducción familiar, entre otros. Por último, la tercera idea consiste en señalar los aportes desde los estudios de género para repensar la familia -la familia transnacional, la maternidad transnacional, la paternidad transnacional, las infancias transnacionales. En este punto, me parece que la migración internacional es una instancia estratégica para el análisis de la institución de la familia en las sociedades globales y que la perspectiva transnacional posibilita superar miradas rígidas sobre el cambio social. ABStRACtIn the last ten years the academic production on gender and migration has grown enormously, although many of this production signify, above all, the approach to the experience of women in migration processes.No longer can we speak of the invisibility of the issue as raised in the reviews carried up ten or fifteen years ago. This paper intends to develop three ideas about the presence of selective migration and gender studies based on the research on migration in Ecuador. The first idea is that this relationship between gender and migration is not new and that we should revisit old debates about gender and agrarian structure transformations that occurred in Latin America, mainly in the Andean region in the years 1970 and 1980 to understand the changes in the international migration, particularly on the experiences of migrant circuits where processes related internal and external migration. The second idea is to point out that a fundamental step observed in studies on gender and migration is turning a look of women's experience with attempts to analyze the gendered character of migration processes and institutions: the labor market, migration policies, family reproductive strateg...

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School Violence and Wellbeing in Southern Ecuador: Exploring Popular Perceptions and Official Discourse Paradoxes

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Torres²,

Faucher

2022

Wellbeing and Schooling

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Transformaciones familiares en la experiencia migratoria ecuatoriana

Cited by 26 publications

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Migration and The Family Transformations It “Leaves Behind”: A Critical View From Ecuador

Migration and The Family Transformations It “Leaves Behind”: A Critical View From Ecuador

Género y migración internacional en la experiencia latinoamericana. De la visibilización del campo a una presencia selectiva

School Violence and Wellbeing in Southern Ecuador: Exploring Popular Perceptions and Official Discourse Paradoxes

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