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.

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>

Muslim Families Comprising Pakistani Fathers and Japanese Mothers: Focusing on the Educational Problems of their Children

Hawwa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuko Takeshita
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Educational Strategy ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Japanese Mothers ◽  
Transnational Social Space ◽  
Islamic Values

AbstractRecently, the educational problems of children with non-Japanese Muslim fathers and Japanese mothers have come to light in Japan. There has been an increase in the number of transnational families in which the Japanese mother and children have moved to an Islamic country for the Islamic education of the children while the non-Japanese father remains in Japan to work. In this paper, I conduct a case study analysis of families comprising Pakistani husbands and Japanese wives, who selected Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the new place of residence for the wife and children, in view of the difficulties in transmitting Islamic values to the children while living in Japan. In this paper, I focus on the educational problems among Muslim children, and attempt to clarify the types of educational strategy that have been developed using social capital arising from social networks. They have selected an educational strategy with a view toward a transnational social space.

scholarly journals Transnational families as seen thought the prism of the experiences of children growing up in them

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Nosek-Kozłowska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Family Experiences ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Trip Time ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Economic Migration

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 particularly important. Children from transnational families have specific family experiences because they are related to the economic migration of one of the parents, which is associated with his longer absence. The motives for the trip, time of separation, and everyday life in each transnational family are different, therefore children from these families have various life experiences and create images of family life in various ways.

Untold Transnational Family Life on the Sonora–Arizona Border

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Sotomayor-Peterson ◽  
Ana A. Lucero-Liu
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
The Us ◽  
Current Sample

Research on transnational families mostly assumes long physical distances and long periods of separation. However, transnational families are diverse and reconfigure in a multitude of ways. The US–Mexican border in Arizona is historically a fluid one, where contact between families is a potential. This possibility of physical contact on a semi-regular basis makes the current sample unique from other transnational families. Using exploratory and descriptive analysis, this chapter provides a portrait of family life for migrant families along the Arizona–Sonora border with the goal of illustrating the diversity of family life for transnational families. Study findings suggest multiple family configurations, including transborder families (with members living within 60 miles of the border on either side) who have frequent physical contact and transnational families with long physical separations and little physical contact. Various aspects of family life (e.g., parenting) between transborder and transnational families are also compared.

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.

8. Family life

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Clayton ◽  
Georgina Firth ◽  
Caroline Sawyer ◽  
Rowena Moffatt ◽  
Helena Wray
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Family Members ◽  
European Economic Area ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Economic Area ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. This chapter focuses on non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals who wish to live permanently with family members who are settled in or are nationals of the UK. The family members of those coming to work or study and of refugees are also briefly considered. It examines marriage-related applications, that is, applications to join a spouse, fiancé(e), civil or long-term partner. It considers the rules relating to adult family members and children; the family life of those with limited leave; refugees and asylum seekers.

8. Family life

2021 ◽  
pp. 279-331
Author(s):  
Gina Clayton ◽  
Georgina Firth ◽  
Caroline Sawyer ◽  
Rowena Moffatt
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Members ◽  
European Economic Area ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The Family ◽  
Impact On Family ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

This chapter focuses on non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals who wish to live permanently with family members who are settled in or are nationals of the UK. The first part of the chapter covers human rights, particularly Article 8 and its impact on family life. The second part of the chapter considers the immigration rules. The family members of those coming to work or study and of refugees are also briefly considered. It examines marriage-related applications, that is, applications to join a spouse, fiancé(e), civil, or long-term partner. It considers the rules relating to adult family members and children, the family life of those with limited leave, and refugees and asylum seekers.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
School Graduation ◽  
Gendered Ideologies ◽  
Main Intervention

The introduction chapter lays out the book’s main intervention, “multidirectional care” to examine how transnational family members from different places in the diaspora exchange care work in many different forms. Although the care work from transnational families are not similar in form (monetary remittances versus high school graduation) they generate labor nonetheless. The incommensurability of the currencies and capital of care work in transnational families is the inquiry of this work because these labors are often circulating on various political, financial and affective economies, yet some of them are valued less, or worse, invisible. By framing the laboring lives of Filipina migrants and their transnational families through the theory of social reproduction, the circulation of care work transnationally, reconceptualization of alternative care providers left behind and shifting gendered ideologies makes the unseen work of reproducing the family, particularly in a transnational arrangement, visible.

Moulding the migrant family

Legal Studies ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Wray
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family Migration ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Immigration Control ◽  
The Family ◽  
Migrant Family

This paper offers a critical perspective on how immigration control regulates the family lives of British residents and nationals of migrant descent. Family migration is problematic for a government determined to restrict long-term immigration to the skilled. The extended or ‘corporate’ family is particularly problematic because it also causes the reproduction of forms of family life that are regarded as oppressive and a barrier to cohesion. Policies have tended to minimise these forms of migration, and recent changes and proposals are consistent with that. The result is the increased marginalisation or exclusion of some migrants and pressure on migrant family life to conform more closely to majority norms.

scholarly journals Transnational families in the light of the practice-based approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-129
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Szyszka
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Transnational Parenting

Today, international migration is one of the main factors that determine functioning of families. Transnational families and transnational parenting are becoming increasingly more common and have been gaining considerable interest of researchers and social practitioners. One perspective that may be useful for examining transnational families is the practice-based approach. The concepts put forward by Morgan and Finch (‘doing’ and ‘displaying’ family) help to analyse families not as structures, but as everyday practices which constitute them (Morgan) and which must be associated with a system of meanings to be displayed (Finch). In the article, the analysis of transnational family practices will focus on the ‘tools’ for displaying (Finch) that are characteristic of transnational family life, and it will be based on the results of Polish and international studies. The article will discuss the tools proposed by Finch, such as physical objects or the use of narratives, as well as the use of technology in communication and taking care of children, as these practices are specific to transnational families. Those ‘tools’ for displaying show that transnational families are flexible, they are constantly happening, and by being embedded in broader systems of meanings, they become acceptable.

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