Transnational families

Evans, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4599-5270 (2025) Transnational families. In: Oso, L., Ribas-Mateos, N. and Moralli, M. (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration. New Mobilities and Artivism. Edward Elgar, pp. 552-555. ISBN 9781035300372

Abstract/Summary

Transnational families are defined as familial groups where one or more family members spend all or most of their time geographically separated from each other across borders, but nevertheless share a collective sense of connection as a ‘family’. Care of older people and transnational motherhood have been investigated, with considerable policy concern about children ‘left behind’. Care has been conceptualised as both ‘proximate’ and ‘at a distance’, circulating among family members through time and space. Migration regimes and other institutional contexts provide parameters for caring arrangements, which are also shaped by migrants’ agency in negotiating caring arrangements. Children’s caring roles, including language brokering, may be significant; they are not just ‘dependents’ receiving care, but provide care and support for older and younger generations and their peers, in ‘proximate’ and ‘at a distance’ relationships. Such caring arrangements may have positive and negative impacts on family members’ wellbeing and opportunities.

Item Type	Book or Report Section
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/121657
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Human Environments Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Geography and Environmental Science
Uncontrolled Keywords	Transnational Families, Familyhood, Caring arrangements, Lifecourse, Reciprocity, Young caregiving
Publisher	Edward Elgar
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