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Transnational Families and Neo-Liberal Globalisation: Past, Present and Future

open access: yesNordic Journal of Migration Research, 2022
The concept of ‘transnational family’ coalesced in the context of neo-liberal globalisation during the late 1990s and 2000s. This article traces the social, economic and political forces that have influenced the spread of transnational families ...
Deborah Fahy Bryceson
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Transnational Migration and Reconfiguration of the Family in Zimbabwe

open access: yesREMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, 2022
The unprecedented transnational migration ensuing from the economic crisis in Zimbabwe has sociocultural impacts on both migrant and non-migrant family members. This article, which draws from qualitative research with migrants and non-migrants, discusses
Rose Jaji
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Precarious Transnationality in Family Relations on the Finnish-Russian Border during the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods

open access: yesGenealogy, 2021
The article develops the view of transnational familyhood as an affect of precarity. Transnationality itself is viewed as being defined by state actors and border regimes which make transnational connections fragile and vulnerable.
Olga Davydova-Minguet, Pirjo Pöllänen
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An implicit ambivalence-indifference dimension of childbearing desires in the National Survey of Family Growth

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2016
Background: It is common in fertility surveys to ask women to retrospectively rate on a bipolar scale how much they wanted a pregnancy right before they became pregnant. Using a theoretical framework based on the interaction between positive and negative
Warren Miller, Jo Jones, David Pasta
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"Fistful of Tears": Encounters with Transnational Affect, Chinese Immigrants and Italian Fast Fashion

open access: yesCambio, 2016
In the made in italy fast-fashion sector, the ultimate flexible workers are Chinese migrants, whose parenting practices include circulating children back to China.
Elizabeth L. Krause
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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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Understandings of transnational families in debates on Migration and development

open access: yesInvestigaciones Feministas, 2016
International migration sets in motion a range of significant transnational processes that connect countries and people. How migration interacts with development and how policies might promote and enhance such interactions have, since the turn of the ...
Ninna Nyberg Sorensen, Ida Marie Vammen
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Changing practices of “being together” in the transnational kin-relationships among Gorani [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2019
The article aims to study how Gorani manage family-kin relationships across space and time examining the continuities and shifts as they create and experience shared co-presence due to the developments of the migration patterns and increasingly ...
Markov Ivaylo
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Transnational Somali Families in Cairo

open access: yesRefuge, 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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Circuits transnationaux d’endettement et parcours migratoire : rémitances, échanges économiques et dettes des migrants en Suisse

open access: yesRevue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2020
Based on some forty qualitative interviews conducted in Switzerland with migrants, this article draws on the socio-economy of debt and the notion of circuits of commerce and remittances circuits to highlight the existence of a plurality of transnational ...
Caroline Henchoz   +2 more
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