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Framing the Study of Transnational Families in Lithuania

open access: yesVilnius University Open Series, 2020
This chapter aims to place the study of Lithuanian transnational families within a broader body of the most recent theoretical frames through which to understand personal lives, family practices and the ways family relationships could be perceived as ...
Irena Juozeliūnienė
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African transnational families: Cross-country and gendered comparisons

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, 2018
AbstractStudies indicated differences between transnational family life for migrant mothers and fathers and that the effects on their “left‐behind” children differ according to who migrates. Yet little is known about why these differences exist. This paper aims to fill this gap by comparing transnational and nontransnational African families with ...
Valentina Mazzucato   +2 more
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“Not like everyone else”? Transnational families’ relationship in their home society – between stigma and dialogue

open access: yesУкраїнський соціум, 2023
The study discusses whether and how Ukrainian and Moldovan migrant parents, some of whom had to leave their children behind in the care of other adults, are faced with a disapproving public discourse while also facing strong pressure both in their ...
Hossu Iu.-E.   +4 more
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Medical use and costs for native fathers and children from transnational marriage families in Taiwan from 2004 to 2017

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
ObjectivesThis is the first study to examine health care utilization in terms of medical use and costs in native fathers and children from transnational families.MethodsTaiwan National Health Insurance Research Database was used to compare the annual ...
Yi-Lung Chen, Yi-Lung Chen
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Transnationalism and caring for vulnerable-status, migrant women and their families during pregnancy and early-childhood

open access: yesWellbeing, Space and Society, 2023
Migrants commonly maintain transnational ties with their home country including identities, attachments, and social, cultural, economic and service/care interactions.
Lisa Merry   +2 more
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Transnational families as seen thought the prism of the experiences of children growing up in them

open access: yesFides et Ratio, 2021
Economic migrations are a phenomenon that extends to many Polish families, causing changes in their structure and functioning. The effects of migration that affect the lives of children and young people brought up in transnational families seem to be ...
Katarzyna Nosek-Kozłowska
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Stories of Transnationalism: nǐ kàn wǒ, wǒ kàn nǐ (你看我, 我看你)

open access: yesThe Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2020
Transnationalism has been explored in scholarship within the scope of migration and globalisation. Often, related literature and theories conceptualise and deconstruct transnationalism within the framework of methodological nationalism.
Yuxian Seow
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Maintaining Intergenerational Solidarity in Mexican Transnational Families

open access: yesJournal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2016
This study explored how Mexican transnational families maintain intergenerational relationships, using five of the dimensions of the intergenerational solidarity framework. Interview data from 13 adult migrant children who lived in the U.S.
Catherine A. Solheim   +2 more
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Envisaging post-Brexit immobility: Polish migrants’ care intentions concerning their elderly parents

open access: yesJournal of Family Research, 2020
The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union will end the European Freedom of Movement and the privileged migration status of EU Citizens in the UK, which will likely affect ‘Brexit families’ and their transnational care arrangements.
Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna   +2 more
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Transnational Multilingual Families in China: Multilingualism as Commodity, Conflict, and In-Betweenness

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2022
Studies on transnational multilingual families and their language planning have mostly investigated their language ideologies and practices in relation to heritage language maintenance without exploring how such families view their multilingualism and ...
Fei Tang, Raees Calafato
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