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Negotiating daughterhood and strangerhood: retrospective accounts of serial migration [PDF]
, 2013 Most considerations of daughtering and mothering take for granted that the subjectivities of mothers and daughters are negotiated in contexts of physical proximity throughout daughters’ childhoods.
Antze P +32 more
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Transnational families negotiating migration and care life cycles across nation-state borders
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019 Over the past two decades, globalisation has propelled millions of economic migrants from poor sending-nations to seek employment in economically better-off receiving-nations, often establishing new offshoot family formation, notwithstanding national ...
D. Bryceson
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The Powerful Map of Transnational Families: 'Marriage, spaces and life trajectories'
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2011 Transnational families are, as the term suggests, social structures existing across national borders. Thus, individuals belonging to these families are in geographical terms separated by space.
Garbi Schmidt
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Transnational Somali Families in Cairo
Refuge, 2007 In this article, I examine how diasporic Somalis in Cairo experience being part of transnational families. I analyze two practices through which transnational family relations are maintained, experienced, and negotiated: (1) living arrangements of ...
Mulki Al-Sharmani
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International parental migration and the psychological well-being of children in Ghana, Nigeria, and Angola [PDF]
, 2017 When parents migrate, leaving their children in the origin country, transnational families are formed. Transnational family studies on children who are “left behind” indicate that children suffer psychologically from parental migration.
Cebotari, Victor +5 more
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City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain [PDF]
, 2010 {Excerpt} Unpacking and applying the concept of structural violence is one of the principal tasks of this book. To be clear from the outset, however, in lodging the experiences of the men and women I encountered in the larger rubric of structural ...
Gardner, Andrew M.
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Money and Blood: Remittances as a Substance of Relatedness in Transnational Families in Nepal
American Anthropologist, 2019 Drawing on research with transnational families in Nepal, this paper explores how kinship is reconstituted in the situation of transnational mobility and what role material flows play in sustaining and disrupting kinship ties, rethinking remittances as a
Ina Zharkevich
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International journal of cultural studies, 2019 This article discusses video-based platforms as drivers of transconnective spaces for transnational families to do familyhood. By looking at how Italians living in London use Skype to re-stage family rituals at a distance, I examine the centrality of ...
S. Marino
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Imagination as a key factor in LMLS in transnational families
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2019 This article argues that imagination plays a key role in whether and how members of transnational families individually and collectively maintain or relinquish their heritage languages and adopt other languages as part of their multilingual repertoires ...
Li Wei, Zhu Hua
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Transnational Displays of Parenting and Caring For Elderly Parents
Vilnius University Open Series, 2020 This chapter is set up to incorporate Finch’s idea of ‘display’ to examine how migrant parents, adult migrant children, and close significant persons perform a set of actions to convey to each other and the society at large that these are family-doing ...
Irena Juozeliūnienė +2 more
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