Transnational families in the era of global mobility
Abstract
As a result of the dominance of highly individualised, economistic and gendered analyses of migration and globalisation processes, family life has often been relegated to the ‘back stage’ of research on globalisation and migration. In this chapter, we examine the relationship between family, globalisation and migration through the lens of care, focusing specifically on the experiences of transnational families. We begin by examining how uneven globalisation processes produce ‘crises of care’, which migration can help alleviate. We move on to explore the transnational care strategies migrants and their kin members in the country of origin develop to maintain familyhood across borders, including when trapped in immobility. In such a context, the opportunities provided by information and communication technologies (ICTs) to maintain connections and to care across distance have become especially important. We conclude by arguing that mobility and internet access are thus key features of globalisation that require careful policy attention at both national and transnational levels.
RAS ID
47114
Document Type
Book
Date of Publication
4-12-2024
School
School of Arts and Humanities
Copyright
subscription content
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Comments
Baldassar, L., Kilkey, M., Merla, L., & Wilding, R. (2018). "Chapter 25 Transnational families in the era of global mobility". In Handbook of Migration and Globalisation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785367519.00035