scholarly journals Μετανάστριες οικιακές βοηθοί και “διεθνική” οικογένεια

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Κατερίνα Βασιλικού
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
State Of Research

<p>In this paper, there is an effort to make a<br />classifi cation of the family relations of the<br />immigrant women who come to Greece<br />from Eastern Europe and the Balkans to<br />work as domestic workers. First, we have a<br />presentation of the state of research about<br />‘transnational’ families and of the relevant<br />terminology. Then, from a biographical<br />research on these women and on the basis of<br />their testimonies we see that the separation<br />and the reunion are the two limits of<br />existence of the transnational family. Women<br />fi nd ways of keeping the family united and at<br />the same time they defi ne largely in this way<br />their identity. Finally, a categorization of the<br />family ties of immigrant women shows that<br />the relation parents-children is the more<br />decisive for the existence of the transnational<br />family.</p>

Disconnective intimacies through social media: practices of transnational family among overseas Chinese students in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 173 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyu Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
International Students ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Insight Into

This article investigates Chinese international students’ everyday transnational family practices through the use of social media. Specifically, the article highlights the relevance of two interlinked forms of disconnection in these students’ daily negotiations of ambivalent cross-border family relations in an age of always-on connectivity. The first form involves their disconnection from the general public via their creation of intimate spaces on social media that are exclusive to their family members. The second form involves the students detaching themselves from such intimate spaces, often temporarily, to escape and resist familial control and surveillance. I conclude the article by developing the notion of ‘disconnective intimacy’ to conceptualise contemporary Chinese transnational families. This article contributes to the literature on the transnational family by providing an insight into the micro-politics of mediated co-presence through the trope of ‘disconnective practice’.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue “Transnational care: Families confronting borders”

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-414
Author(s):  
Laura Merla ◽  
Majella Kilkey ◽  
Loretta Baldassar
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Migration Regimes

In this article, we introduce the key themes of our Special Issue on "Transnational care: families confronting borders". Central to this collection is the question of how family relations and solidarities are impacted by the current scenario of closed borders and increasingly restrictive migration regimes. This question is examined more specifically through the lens of care dynamics within transnational families and their (re-)configurations across diverse contexts marked by "immobilizing regimes of migration". We begin by presenting a brief overview of key concepts in the transnational families and caregiving literature that provides a foundation for the diverse cases explored in the articles, including refugees and asylum seekers in Germany and Finland, Polish facing Brexit in the UK, Latin American migrants transiting through Mexico, and restrictionist drifts in migration policies in Australia, Belgium and the UK. Drawing on this rich work, we identify two policy tools; namely temporality and exclusion, which appear to be particularly salient features of immobilizing regimes of migration that significantly influence care-related mobilities. We conclude with a discussion of how immobilizing regimes are putting transnational family solidarities in crisis, including in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, gripping the globe at the time of writing.

Euro-stil. Storia di una famiglia transnazionale moldava

2009 ◽  
pp. 191-210
Author(s):  
Francesco Vietti
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Economic Collapse ◽  
Rural Context ◽  
The Impact

- This study analyses the impact of migration on the family roles in Moldova and the changing dynamics within transnational families. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the economic collapse of the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of Moldovans have left their country over the past decade to seek opportunities abroad. The mass migration has become the dominant socio-economic phenomenon of the country and has prompted the redefinition of family structure and ideology.Keywords Etnography, Family, Transnationalism, Eastern Europe, RemittancesThe migration of a large number of women leads to a reorganization of the division of labour and the gender roles within the transnational family. These changes can influence communities as well as families. Taking a closer look at the transnational experience of a family in the rural context of Pîrlita, a village near the Romanian border, the study explores the migrants' consumption desires and practices as reflective not only of commodified exchange but also of affection and sentiment.Keywords Etnography, Family, Transnationalism, Eastern Europe, Remittances

Fathering From Beyond the Border . . .: Exploring the Experiences of Deported Fathers in Trinidad and Tobago

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 2982-3005
Author(s):  
Cheryl-Ann Sarita Boodram
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Effects ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Transnational Communication ◽  
Adaptation Response ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Personal Assets

Changes in immigration and border control legislations in metropolitan countries have led to an increase in the number of fathers deported to the Caribbean. By way of qualitative research, the author examined the experiences of 18 deported fathers whose children remained in the deporting country. The findings reveal the psychosocial effects of deportation on fathers and how fathering roles are challenged by stigma, costly transnational communication facilities and frozen personal assets. Deportation also leads to families adjusting gender roles and family structures. The findings support the family adjustment and adaptation response model by showing how deportation constitutes a stressor which overwhelms the family’s resources to cope and which results in a process of adjustment and adaptation. This study is significant in that it provides a deeper insight into the issues that affect deported fathers and underlines the need for policy interventions that support transnational family ties.

The financialisation of transnational family care: a study of UK-based senders of remittances to Ghana and Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Nicola Yeates ◽  
Freda Owusu-Sekyere
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Social

AbstractTransnational families occupy centre-stage in literatures on transformations in the social organisation and relations of care and welfare because they express how social bonds are sustained despite geographical separation. This paper examines some key themes arising from a research study into remittance-sending practices of UK-based Ghanaians and Nigerians in the light of research literatures on transnational family care and development finance. The data comprises qualitative interviews with 20 UK-based Ghanaian and Nigerian people who regularly send remittances to their families ‘back home’. This paper discusses a social issue that arises from the transnationalisation of family structures and relations, when migrant family members are positioned within family networks as ‘absent providers’, and familial relations eventually become financialised. The findings show the complexities of transnational living, the hardships endured by remittance-senders and the particular strains of remittance-mediated family relationships. The financialisation of family relations affects the social subjectivity and positioning of remittance-senders within the family. Strain and privation are integral to participants’ experiences of transnational family life, while themes of deception, betrayal, and expatriation also feature. The suppression of emotion is a feature of the significant labour inputs participants make in sustaining relationships within transnational families. The paper considers UK social policy implications of the findings.

THE ROLE OF FAMILY START UPS IN THE EMERGENCE OF A SMALL BUSINESS SECTOR IN BULGARIA

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (03) ◽  
pp. 351-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
DENISE FLETCHER ◽  
EMIL HELIENEK ◽  
ZVETA ZAFIROVA
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Family ◽  
Start Ups

It is widely reported that entrepreneurial activity has a significant role to play in transition economies such as Central and Eastern Europe but little is known about the role that the family unit plays in facilitating small business emergence in the former command economies. This is surprising given that the link between family and small business development has been widely researched in market economies. In this study, attention is drawn to the role that family relations and resources play in small business emergence. The study focuses on Bulgaria, a country in the Balkans with much cultural diversity and which became a European Union member in 2007–8. Analysis is undertaken of research material drawn from a survey of 69 small firms. 42% of the surveyed firms are two generation businesses involving the entrepreneur and children or parents. 35% of the businesses are three generation businesses involving the lead entrepreneur, parents, children and siblings. The remaining 33% are firms that are run by couples and/or siblings. This suggests that the family household is the key channel for (and of) small business formation. In neglecting the role of family start-ups, this gives a false understanding to the role that households and families sometimes contribute to the economy. At the same time, it is also partly because of this dependency on family relations and resources that small businesses become rooted in the 'informal economy' — an economy that is based on family favours and which it is difficult to break out of.

scholarly journals Dynamics of change in transnational families ̶ Biographical perspectives on family figurations between Spain and Ecuador

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-2019) ◽  
pp. 264-286
Author(s):  
Christian Schramm
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Sudden Change ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
National Society ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Transnational Social Space ◽  
Self Presentations

This paper explores the figurational process in transnational families through the study of the biographical self-presentations and the life courses of family members who live apart (in Bilbao, Spain and Guayaquil, Ecuador) but remain interdependent. It asks which factors inside and outside the family figuration influence the negotiation of the fragile power balances along gender and generational lines, with what effect for the structure of positions, family norms, mutual expectations and the division of tasks. Special attention is given to the deep financial and economic crisis affecting Spain between 2008 and 2014 and how this sudden change of the context in one national society impacts the transnational family life. Results highlight the importance of the long-term pre-migration family figurational process for the way transnational family life is being shaped. They also show how a variety of influencing factors, observed during the migration period and located in different national societies and the transnational social space, is intertwined with the logic of this long-term process.

Immigrant women in paid domestic service. The case of Spain and Italy

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 503-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sónia Parella Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Welfare State Regimes ◽  
Southern European Countries

In the familistic welfare state regimes of Italy and Spain, the resurgence in live-in domestic work and the demand for migrant domestic workers is stronger than in other European countries. Organising and regulating services in order to help with the burden of caring for one's family is not an important objective of social policy in southern European countries. It is taken for granted that the family (‘women') is the main provider of social protection. In the absence of policy decisions in this field, the increase in local women's labour market participation in recent decades has led to households recruiting non-EU immigrant women in order to help them balance the needs of their family with the demands of paid employment. These immigrants constitute an enormous supply of low-cost labour and there is a shortage of local female workers in paid domestic work.

scholarly journals Mobility Restrictions and Transnational Families: How COVID-19 Pandemic May Affect Families and Caring for Children?

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irena Juozeliūnienė ◽  
Gintė Martinkėnė ◽  
Irma Budginaitė-Mačkinė ◽  
Laimutė Žilinskienė
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Free Mobility ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
The Family ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Global World

In this article, we analyse how global mobility restrictions related to COVID-19 may affect Lithuanian transnational families and transnational practices of parenting. The article draws on the data from the quota-based survey, implemented while carrying out the research project ‘Global Migration and Lithuanian Family: Family Practices, Circulation of Care and Return Strategies’ (No. S-MIP-17-117), funded by the Lithuanian Research Council, to analyse the transnational care practices that require the mobility of family members. The challenges created by the pandemic are discussed while analysing the data from the case studies of transnational families. The article reveals that the free mobility of family members in the global world is an important part of the transnational care practices, ensuring continuity of family relations and childcare, regardless of the residence of the family members. The anti-mobility regimes create challenges to family unity, intergenerational relations and give ground to the emergence of new stigmas.

scholarly journals Sådan fortæller man, at man får et barn. Diskursive onlinekonstruktioner

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (113) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Anette Grønning
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Woman ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Newborn Baby ◽  
Middle Region ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Moment

HOW TO TELL THAT YOU ARE PREGNANT | The focus of this article is mediated exposure of life before life based on fetal images, including textual updates uploaded to individual Facebook profiles. The article analyses how pictures of embryos have become part of daily digital self presentation and the narrative about expecting a child. We follow a pregnant’s Facebook profile from the moment she uploads the first fetal image around the twelfth week, till the moment she updates with the news about the delivery documented by a picture of her newborn baby. The mediated exposure also involves the coming father, as the pregnant woman tags the pictures with his name to underline the family ties. Many relations (mostly women) contribute with comments that can be categorised into three groups: serious, humoristic-ironic and analysing questioning. The Facebook update can be seen as a side stage or middle region (Meyrowitz) position, a constantly more muddy space between public and private self presentation. This new praxis confirms Jean Baudrillard’s thoughts about the subject’s exaggerated presentation of self. The online audience is more comprehensive and less controllable than offline. The pregnant exposes her pregnancy, motherhood and her product (the foetus)through updates, pictures and tagging. The Facebook update is a new way to interpellate family relations and to celebrate the coming new member with the comprehensive network in three levels.

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