Doing Translocal Families Through Children’s Names

Balode, Marta; Lulle, Aija

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“…What is evident is that at present interreligious couple-focused and adult-centric analyses appear to be the mainstream tendency. There is only one study so far that focuses on the perspectives of mothers and their children in a mixed and mobile family setting as regards forenamesthat of Balode and Lulle (2018). In this study, the authors notably bring to light children's perspectives: for instance, protesting about their forenames or correcting their peers in pronouncing their forenames.…”

Section: Researching Name Giving In Mixed Familiesmentioning

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Social Relatedness and Forenaming in ‘Mixed’ Families: Valuing Children of Filipino-Belgian Couples

Fresnoza-Flot

2023

The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies

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The literature on 'mixed' families (in which members are socially viewed as 'different' due to their varying ethnicities and/or nationalities) identifies several stakes of mixedness. One of them arises from childbirth, after which parents need to give name(s) to their offspring. How does the parent-child dyad understand the giving of names in their mixed family? What does naming children unveil regarding interpersonal interactions and the value of children within this social unit? The chapter delves into these questions through a case study of forenaming children in Filipino-Belgian families in Belgium. Interview data analysis reveals two modes of forenaming in these families: individualisation through single forenames and reinforcement of collective affiliation through compound forenames. Through the analytical framework of social relatedness, this chapter uncovers the way the act of naming a child bridges families based on biological and social ties, generations, and parents' nations of belonging in their transnational spaces. The complex process of naming reflects the power dynamics not only within the parental couple but also within the wider set of social relations. Although the use of forename(s) in everyday life and in legal terms differ, the value of children in the mixed families studied lies in their symbolic role as social bridges linking generations and non-biological relationships, the then and now, and the here and there.

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Section: Researching Name Giving In Mixed Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Relatedness and Forenaming in ‘Mixed’ Families: Valuing Children of Filipino-Belgian Couples

Fresnoza-Flot

2023

The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies

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“…When studying children's names in migration contexts ethnographically, somatic reactions such as stomach aches (Balode and Lulle, 2018) were reported in the fear of how (wrongly again) a teacher would pronounce a migrant child's name. Young Irish and Latvian migrants referred less to such fears, but rather to their names being 'very Irish' and selfsarcastically in the English-language context, as in the quotes below by male participants: Oh, my name [but here I use a pseudonym] is terrible…, they just think it's some kind of weird name.…”

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Repertoires of ‘migrant names’: an inquiry into mundane identity production

Lulle

2021

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper examines how, when and where personal names are produced as 'migrant names'. Drawing on 21 interviews with young Irish and Latvian migrants in the UK, I demonstrate how mundane stories, linguistic details, and repertoires about migrant names are embodied, mobile, relational, and produce everyday social distinctions. Empirical analysis unpacks changes in naming stories throughout participants' multiple migration trajectories in Ireland, Latvia, the UK and beyond. I argue for a geographically sensitive take on migrant names because they are produced as such through recognisable repertoires of displacement and then re-emplaced in certain spaces and times. The paper makes three main original contributions. The first is to interdisciplinary literatures on names, specifically on the significance of temporal and spatial contexts and the relationalities underpinning the production of migrant names. Second, it brings to geographies of identities novel understandings of ethnic and national power relations in naming practices, including an emphasis on the process of ambiguous whiteness. Finally, I contribute much-needed methodological propositions on how to pseudonymise names in migration research.

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Doing Translocal Families Through Children’s Names

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Social Relatedness and Forenaming in ‘Mixed’ Families: Valuing Children of Filipino-Belgian Couples

Social Relatedness and Forenaming in ‘Mixed’ Families: Valuing Children of Filipino-Belgian Couples

Repertoires of ‘migrant names’: an inquiry into mundane identity production

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