scholarly journals Den globale familie: opløsning eller transnationalisering af familien?

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Family Disintegration ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Domestic Group ◽  
Migration Analysis

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen: The Global Family – Disintegration or Transnationalization of the Family? The identification of the family with the domestic group has given rise to various analytical problems in migration research. Many researchers have argued that family separation due to migration leads inevitably to family disintegration. Prediction of such negative outcomes has been conspicuously salient in work dealing with migrant mothers who leave spouses and/or children behind. Nevertheless, the proliferation of long-distance and sometimes long-term transnational family ties challenges conventional notions of the family. This article, which is based on qualitative interviews with Latin American migrants in various European countries, discusses two related issues. The first concerns the question of whether the feminization of particular migration streams translates into new and distinct transnational family relationships. The second concerns the roots and consequences of spatially fractured husband-wife/ parent-child relations. The article concludes that migration transforms, reorients and reprioritizes family relationships, but not necessarily in the way predicted by conventional demography or migration analysis.

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.

Partnership working between young carers project and social services

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-64
Author(s):  
Anna Heyman
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Young Carers ◽  
Social Work Theory ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

This article draws on in-depth qualitative interviews with ten practitioners who specialise in working with young carers, to examine how members of the emerging profession of ‘young carers’ worker’ view their partnerships with social services. It focuses particularly on one case study area (Town Z), where partnerships between social services and the voluntary sector around young carers were relatively highly developed. It explores the practitioners’ comments about the impact of their organisations’ partnerships with social services on their work. This is done in the context of their conceptualisations of care and family relationships. In particular, the themes of identifying young carers and working with the family as a whole are discussed, and young carers’ workers views are compared to the conceptualisations that come across in literature from both disability studies and social work perspectives. It is concluded that young carers’ workers conceptualisations of care and disability do differ markedly from the perspectives that appear to dominate both social work theory and practice, and that this impacting on how the former view their partnerships with the latter.

scholarly journals "A Stone In The Ocean": A Mixed Methods Investigation Into The Experiences Of Families Trying To Reunite In Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth J. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
Critical Policy ◽  
Permanent Residents ◽  
Family Class

Every year many families are formed, or find themselves separated, across borders. To address the problem of family separation, the family class stream of immigration to Canada, which accounts for 20-30% of new immigrants annually, allows citizens or permanent residents to sponsor certain family members for permanent residency. Yet there has been very little research on experiences of this policy. Family reunification immigration, located at the intersection of the personal and the political, has been marginalized by masculinized policy disciplines that focus on macro-trends in immigration and render the family invisible, and by feminized disciplines that focus on the family and individual in immigration while rendering policy invisible. This dissertation fills that gap in the literature, using a critical policy studies approach informed by aspects of Critical Theory, intersectionality and Foucauldian interpretations of power. I explore the lived experiences of families as they apply to reunite through the family class stream, and of families who would like to apply to reunite but cannot. I used mixed methods—qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys—to collect data from 169 families, and 100 key informants who support applicant families, including lawyers, consultants, settlement workers and constituency office caseworkers. This approach and research design allowed me to expose and develop a deep knowledge of families’ experiences that have until now been marginalized. Findings show that, though the decision on an immigration application is important, a sole focus on that decision both excludes applicants’ vastly different experiences during the process and renders invisible those who cannot even apply. Diversity in experiences was closely related to interactions between different aspects of social location, and policy design and implementation. Applicants exercised many forms of initiative and agency, but were ultimately constrained by policy structures. The new Government has recently made promising changes, but we must ensure these changes are effective and continue to advocate for further improvements that would mitigate applicants’ negative experiences. Finally, more research needs to be done, most importantly on family reunification through immigration streams that were excluded from this study.

scholarly journals Love’s Labour’s Lost? Separation as a Constraint on Displays of Transnational Daughterhood

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852110436
Author(s):  
Hanna Kara ◽  
Sirpa Wrede
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Physical Separation ◽  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
American Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Complex Emotion ◽  
Love's Labour's Lost

This article develops sociological knowledge on daughterhood through an analysis of how separation shapes the emotional and moral dynamics of transnational daughterhood. Building on Finch, we look at daughtering as a set of concrete social practices that constitute kinship and carry the symbolic dimension of displaying the family-like character of relationships. Within this framework, we analyse how Latin American women living in Barcelona discuss their transnational family lives and filial responsibilities. We see family as finite, evolving in the past, present and future, and develop a threefold understanding of filial love as an institution imbued with formal expectations, a strong and complex emotion, and reciprocal embodied caring. We consider persisting physical separation in migration as a circumstance that demands not only practical solutions but also ongoing moral labour that sustains transnational bonds and notions of being a ‘good enough’ daughter.

Las dinámicas familiares en torno al videojuego social Fortnite

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-198
Author(s):  
Francisco Albarello ◽  
Adriana Velasco ◽  
Mariángeles Castro Sánchez ◽  
Ángela Novoa Echaurren ◽  
Victoria Novaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
American University ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
The Media

In 2017 the company Epic Games created the videogame Fortnite. This game has become the cross-platform survival and open experience with the greatest penetration worldwide. The rapid increase of use has spread alarm voices among parents and the media have echoed these concerns criticizing the game for being responsible for most afflictions suffered by children and adolescents. 178 The study is based on an understanding of the game as a key element in personal and social development. Therefore, this project aims to explore and describe the specific interactions emerging as a result of the penetration of Fortnite into family life, seeking to extend our understanding of the phenomenon and the potential effects that it may produce in the family dynamics. The research also seeks to categorize the dynamics generated, emphasizing more specifically on implications for parents in terms of educative mediation. Concerning the methodology, this is a qualitative exploratory case study, in which observations and in-depth interviews are the main sources of data collection. According to the analysis of the first interviews and observations, it is possible to provisionally hypothesize that, unlike simplistic views spread through mass media of Fortnite as a new dangerous addictive platform for young people, the diverse contexts and realities that configure each family make this type of linear interpretations highly problematic. Most technological devices affect the interaction and relational dynamics already installed in families. Throughout the last forty years, television and offline video games have been playing a significant role in shaping the family relationships. Online environments today increase such influence. The complex interrelations generated in blended social ecosystems, such as 'what is' or 'what is not' permitted, the mechanism of videogame banning or use as a form of punishment or reward, the myths, and ignorance on the part of adults concerning the ‘virtual’ socialization of youth and the relevance of this practice among young people, are some of the contributions that can be drawn from this investigation. This presentation exposes the collaborative work conducted by researchers of Universidad Austral (Argentina) and Universidad de los Andes (Chile), which has gained the first place in the award provided by the Network of Latin American University Institutes of Family (REDIFAM).

scholarly journals Everyday (in)security and transnational family relationships in the lives of young forced migrants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Hiitola
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Political Citizenship ◽  
Family Connections ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Refugee Minors ◽  
Political Decisions

This article examines the impact of family separation on the organization of everyday security among unaccompanied refugee minors living in Finland. By focusing on the concept of everyday (in)security, this article analyses the consequences of the recent political decisions on young refugees’ family connections. The data in this study includes interviews among 16 Afghani, Iraqi, Ethiopian and Somali refugees who have attained residency in Finland and who are attempting to bring family members to the country via family reunification. The data is analysed using categorization analysis. I found four main ways though which young refugees establish security in their often insecure lives. First, the youth constructed collective identities which connected their lives with their transnational families and gave a purpose in life. Second, they turned to religion and created ontological securities. Third, the youth wanted to live ‘ordinary’ lives. Fourth, they also engaged in enacting political citizenship.

Parenting From Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

The definition of family as a conjugal group consisting of parents and children living in the same household is in the process of a profound reworking, one that includes the constellation of family life that exists around the world. Increased migration and mobility have challenged traditional notions of what constitutes a family, yet much mainstream research relies on past notions of a cohesive unit under one domicile. Many families today are separated across distance and maintain ties in a multitude of ways. And although researchers have increasingly paid attention to this new picture of the family, much of this work has focused on transnational families separated in the context of overseas economic migration. In fact, family separation and long-distance parenting result from a multitude of reasons undertaken in various circumstances. This volume presents work from scholars who collectively show reasons that motivate parenting across distance, how families cope with separation and maintain ties, the impact of separation on family members, and how family is redefined and reconfigured in these various settings. By better understanding how we parent from a distance, this volume synthesizes ideas of kinship, relationships, and bonding and helps readers broaden their own ideas of parenting and family life.

scholarly journals Care and reunification in a Cape Verdean family: Changing articulations of family and legal ties

Ethnography ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-70
Author(s):  
Heike Drotbohm
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One

This article looks at the interaction between transnational family relationships, on the one hand, and family-related immigration policies, on the other. Taking the conflicting concerns that arose between administrative decision-makers and family members during an attempt to reunite a Cape Verdean family spread across several countries as an example, the questions of what ‘family’ means, what relationships are included and the nature of the relationships involved answered differently by different actors will be shown. The article discusses the way in which the regulation of transnational mobility according to specific categories of eligibility is giving social ties a concrete legal form which can run contrary to the social conventions and conceptions of migrants and their families. The focus is on both the normative categories that have repercussions for the core of the social sphere and on the family practices that react to these categorizations.

Understanding ‘risk’ in families living with mixed blood-borne viral infection status: The doing and undoing of ‘difference’

2020 ◽  
pp. 136345932094646
Author(s):  
Asha Persson ◽  
Anthony KJ Smith ◽  
Jack Wallace ◽  
kylie valentine ◽  
Joanne Bryant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Viral Infection ◽  
Viral Hepatitis ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Transmission Risk ◽  
Infection Status ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
The Family ◽  
Viral Infection Status

‘Risk’ has long been at the centre of expert and popular perceptions of transmissible and stigmatised blood-borne viral infections, such as HIV and viral hepatitis. There is a substantial body of research on transmission risk among couples with mixed viral infection status (serodiscordance). But we know very little about how families affected by HIV and viral hepatitis engage with understandings of infectiousness and how these shape family relationships in different ways. Guided by cultural theories of risk that build on Mary Douglas’ work, we draw on qualitative interviews to explore the ‘performativity’ of risk in serodiscordant families in Australia. We show how the ‘doing’ of risk could be constitutive of difference, which unsettled the family connection or deepened existing fault lines. Conversely, the ‘undoing’ of risk enabled the preservation of the family bond by rejecting difference and reframing risk as an external threat to the family in the form of stigma. We conclude that risk in the context of serodiscordant families had relational implications far beyond viral transmission and consider what our findings might mean for service provision and health promotion campaigns related to blood-borne viruses.

scholarly journals "A Stone In The Ocean": A Mixed Methods Investigation Into The Experiences Of Families Trying To Reunite In Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth J. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
Critical Policy ◽  
Permanent Residents ◽  
Family Class

Every year many families are formed, or find themselves separated, across borders. To address the problem of family separation, the family class stream of immigration to Canada, which accounts for 20-30% of new immigrants annually, allows citizens or permanent residents to sponsor certain family members for permanent residency. Yet there has been very little research on experiences of this policy. Family reunification immigration, located at the intersection of the personal and the political, has been marginalized by masculinized policy disciplines that focus on macro-trends in immigration and render the family invisible, and by feminized disciplines that focus on the family and individual in immigration while rendering policy invisible. This dissertation fills that gap in the literature, using a critical policy studies approach informed by aspects of Critical Theory, intersectionality and Foucauldian interpretations of power. I explore the lived experiences of families as they apply to reunite through the family class stream, and of families who would like to apply to reunite but cannot. I used mixed methods—qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys—to collect data from 169 families, and 100 key informants who support applicant families, including lawyers, consultants, settlement workers and constituency office caseworkers. This approach and research design allowed me to expose and develop a deep knowledge of families’ experiences that have until now been marginalized. Findings show that, though the decision on an immigration application is important, a sole focus on that decision both excludes applicants’ vastly different experiences during the process and renders invisible those who cannot even apply. Diversity in experiences was closely related to interactions between different aspects of social location, and policy design and implementation. Applicants exercised many forms of initiative and agency, but were ultimately constrained by policy structures. The new Government has recently made promising changes, but we must ensure these changes are effective and continue to advocate for further improvements that would mitigate applicants’ negative experiences. Finally, more research needs to be done, most importantly on family reunification through immigration streams that were excluded from this study.

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