Transnational Families

Baldassar, Loretta; Kilkey, Majella; Merla, Laura; Wilding, Raelene

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“…Challenging the idea that geographical proximity is a crucial condition for intergenerational family relationships and solidarity, transnational family scholarship shows that the dispersion of family members does not prevent them from 'doing family' (Morgan 1996) across national borders. In fact, various forms of intergenerational solidarity and transnational care take place between migrants and their non-migrant relatives (Baldassar et al 2007(Baldassar et al , 2014Bryceson and Vuorela 2002). Moreover, these studies argue that the same forms of support identified by family sociologists in a national context -that is offering accommodation as well as financial, material, practical, emotional and moral support (Finch and Mason 1993) -circulate within transnational families in both upward and downward directions and in reciprocal and asymmetrical ways (Baldassar et al 2014).…”

Section: Grandparenting Within Transnational Families: Reassessing Prmentioning

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“…In fact, various forms of intergenerational solidarity and transnational care take place between migrants and their non-migrant relatives (Baldassar et al 2007(Baldassar et al , 2014Bryceson and Vuorela 2002). Moreover, these studies argue that the same forms of support identified by family sociologists in a national context -that is offering accommodation as well as financial, material, practical, emotional and moral support (Finch and Mason 1993) -circulate within transnational families in both upward and downward directions and in reciprocal and asymmetrical ways (Baldassar et al 2014). In addition, transnational intergenerational solidarities develop in diverse co-presence settings.…”

Section: Grandparenting Within Transnational Families: Reassessing Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, the new co-presence regimes enabled by information and communication technologies (ICT) expand the premises for creating a sense of togetherness in transnational families and possibilities for doing family across borders (Baldassar et al 2016;Madianou and Miller 2012;Nedelcu 2017;Nedelcu and Wyss 2016). At the same time, although transnational care exchanges are expressions of obligations, trust and love among family members, they are also characterized by tensions and conflicts (Baldassar et al 2014;Nedelcu and Wyss 2016), thereby reflecting the inherent ambivalence in intergenerational family relationships and solidarity.…”

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Transnational grandparenting: an introduction

Nedelcu

Wyss

2019

Global Networks

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This first special issue dedicated to grandparenting patterns and their significance within transnational families sheds new light on transnational grandparenting as a phenomenon reflecting the convergence of three major transformations in today's societies – global ageing, diversification of migration and mobility flows, and lifestyle individualization. It contains five articles based on empirical studies conducted in several European countries (Switzerland, Luxembourg, Spain, Romania, and the Czech Republic) focusing on transnational families from both EU and non‐EU countries (Germany, France, Italy, Brazil, Morocco, Algeria, Switzerland, Britain, Portugal, Romania, and Vietnam). These articles portray transnational grandparenting through the prism of three nexuses (mobile/non‐mobile, migrant/non‐migrant, and kin/non‐kin), thus allowing one to understand grandparents' roles in the transnational circulation of care in the light of contemporary family transformations on the one hand, and of the increased transnationalization of everyday ‘doing family’ practices on the other.

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Section: Grandparenting Within Transnational Families: Reassessing Prmentioning

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Section: Grandparenting Within Transnational Families: Reassessing Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Grandparenting Within Transnational Families: Reassessing Prmentioning

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Transnational grandparenting: an introduction

Nedelcu

Wyss

2019

Global Networks

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“…El impacto de las TIC en la migración internacional ha sido ampliamente estudiado durante los últimos años, ofreciendo visiones generales de la retroalimentación entre migraciones, relaciones familiares y TIC (Alonso et al, 2010;Aretxabala et al, 2015;Baldassar et al, 2014;Nedelcu, 2012;Madianou and Miller 2012b) así como importantes análisis de casos particulares que ilustran estas nuevas dinámicas (Aguirre y Davies, 2015;Beluschi-Fabeni et al, 2017;Benarrosh-Orsoni, 2016;Lášticová, 2014;Melella, 2016;Shaker, 2017;Szmukler, 2015;Thongsawang, 2016). Nuestro trabajo aporta un análisis de la especificidad en el uso de herramientas y aplicaciones digitales por parte de un grupo concreto, o lo que es lo mismo, su desenvolvimiento en el actual entorno polymedia.…”

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Redes sociales digitales en la migración trasnacional romá de Rumanía. Una polymedia transnacional = Digital Media and Digital Networks in the Romanian Roma Migration: A new transnational polymedia

Ogáyar-Marín

Muntean

Gamella-Mora

2018

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Resumen: En este artículo estudiamos la convergencia de la migración romá rumana posterior a 1989 con el desarrollo de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) a partir de ese mismo período. Para ello hemos partido del trabajo etnográfico previo realizado durante dos campañas entre 2003-2007 y 2013-2016 respectivamente con siete redes romá Korturare procedentes de las regiones rumanas de Transilvania y el Bánato, centrándonos en tres de ellas por su presencia en la ciudad de Granada. El rol de los recursos de polymedia, un entorno emergente de posibilidades comunicativas, facilita y alienta los desplazamientos migratorios al reducir incertidumbres y permitir experiencias de copresencia (digitalizada) en un contexto transnacional. Esta situación favorece dinámicas de reproducción y control cultural, pero a la vez habilita y permite usos diferenciados en polymedia que esbozan transformaciones en las costumbres romá.Abstract: In this paper we explore the convergence of two contemporary parallel processes: the post-1990 transnational migration of Roma groups from some Eastern European countries, particularly Romania to the West, and the growing use by these populations of the expanding social media derived from the revolutionary development of new ICT (information and communication technologies). We have followed some groups from Transylvania and Banat to their western diaspora in a long-term ethnographic work that started in 2003 and was retaken in a recent ethnographic project (2013-2017). We have studied primarily groups living in Andalusia, although their family networks are extended today over more than 30 localities in a dozen of European and North American countries. These networks of networks form a social space or commuinity or reference that is largely maintained through digital communication. The different social media and communication options (from Facebook to cheap phone calls) generate a new kind of virtual environment or polymedia (Madianou and Miller 2011, 2012). In this paper we explore the effects of this new social space of communication in three major aspects of Roma social life: 1)Its effects in facilitating, supporting and inducing mobility and migration; 2) In cultural reproduction and transformation through the maintenance of specific systems of family, marriage, gender and conflict resolution, including the online transmission of public trials and courts (kris), funerary rituals and elaborated marriage ceremonies, including betrothal (mangaimo) and weddings (abev); and 3)In new processes of social distinction and differentiation following fracture lines of class, gender and generation.

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“…L aborers who leave their families to take on jobs abroad have not only increased in number but have had the challenges in their lives revealed in recent studies (Baldassar, Kilkey, Merla, & Wilding, 2014;Sarti, 2008). A case in point is the rich body of research that looks at the lives of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), many of whom fill jobs as laborers or other "nonskilled" labor in Asia, Europe, and North America (National Statistics Office, 2012).…”

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Yaya: Philippine Domestic Care Workers, the Children They Care for, and the Children They Leave Behind

Rosario

2014

International Perspectives in Psychology

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The domestic and care labor sector is integral to the economic and social fabric of almost every nation. Although there has been increasing attention to the plight and experiences of international migrant workers within this field, less is known about the experiences of rural-to-urban migrants employed in this same sector. This study focuses on “yayas”—domestic workers caring for children in affluent families in the Philippines and draws from fieldwork and interviews conducted in Quezon City. Participants were female “yayas” caring for young children while they themselves were separated from their own offspring, most of whom were left behind in their rural communities. Interviews evoked themes reflecting a convergence of broad social and economic issues (e.g., rural poverty), gender norms and roles (e.g., the role of women in raising children), and traditional notions regarding family and parenting (e.g., the role of parents in children’s upbringing, obligations of extended family) all together resulting in a heavy personal burden and transformed parenting strategies in light of spatial distance (e.g., remittances, mediated contact). Interviews revealed themes specific to the experience of being a worker in the care sector, including the nature of the relationship between the “yaya” and her charge, and the “yaya” and her employer. Although findings reflect themes that are consistent with the larger body of work on the experiences of transnational parenting among overseas Filipino workers, the current data suggest some unique patterns that reflect access to fewer economic and social resources among internal migrants in this study.

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Transnational Families

Cited by 78 publications

References 39 publications

Transnational grandparenting: an introduction

Transnational grandparenting: an introduction

Redes sociales digitales en la migración trasnacional romá de Rumanía. Una polymedia transnacional = Digital Media and Digital Networks in the Romanian Roma Migration: A new transnational polymedia

Yaya: Philippine Domestic Care Workers, the Children They Care for, and the Children They Leave Behind

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