From Germany with Love: Transnational Family Networks and Daughterhood Constructions of Russian Au Pair Migrants

Rohde, Caterina

doi:10.1080/21931674.2012.10820730

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“…This article contributes to the literature that investigates au pair migration beyond the duration of the initial stay as an au pair (see also Búriková 2016; Cox 2016; Dalgas & Olwig 2015;Rohde 2012;Tkach 2014). Moreover, the article views au pairs as migrants entangled in networks of local and transnational relations.…”

Section: A Network-oriented Approach To Exploring Au Pair Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similar to the Russian au pairs in Germany, studied by the sociologist Caterina Rohde-Abuba (Rohde 2012), the Filipino au pairs explained that they have gone abroad in order to travel and see the world, to become more independent and to release themselves from parental control (Dalgas 2015). Au pair placement is one of the few ways in which they can enter Denmark, being non-EU citizens with limited financial means.…”

Section: Filipino Au Pairsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bikova 2015;Dalgas 2015;Dalgas & Olwig 2015;Rohde 2012;Sollund 2009). Focusing on how Filipina au pairs in Norway engage in circulations of care with their family members left behind, the sociologist Mariya Bikova (2015) showed how such transnational family relations are fraught with tensions as well as care.…”

Section: A Network-oriented Approach To Exploring Au Pair Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Filipino Au Pairs on the Move: Navigating strong and weak ties in the search of future paths

Dalgas¹

2016

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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Most Filipina2 au pairs in Denmark send remittances back home, and for many, au pairing forms part of longer-term migration trajectories. This article explores how Filipina au pairs try to carve out a future for themselves abroad. It shows that they navigate within tight webs of financial interdependence, whilst they continuously form their trajectories in relation to opportunities and restraints posed along the way by their local and transnational social relations. The article argues that examinations of migration trajectories benefit from broadening the research out in both time and space by including the migrants' broader social network within the frame of research.

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Section: A Network-oriented Approach To Exploring Au Pair Trajectoriesmentioning

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Section: Filipino Au Pairsmentioning

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Filipino Au Pairs on the Move: Navigating strong and weak ties in the search of future paths

Dalgas¹

2016

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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“…As Olwig and Valentin (2015) argue, by primarily focusing on the exploitive conditions that migrants are subjected to, researchers can come to reinforce a negative image of the migrants as a 'racialized labor force performing the dirty, badly paid work that the local population is not willing to do' (Olwig and Valentin 2014:254). There is, however, a new wave within au pair research that aims at exploring other aspects of au pair migration than that which can be exhibited by employing a labour framework (see, for example, Búrikova & Miller 2010, Dalgas 2015, Rohde 2012. Tkach 2014.…”

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Au Pairs on Facebook: Ethnographic use of social media in politicised fields

Dalgas

2016

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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Ethnographers are increasingly making use of Facebook to acquire access and general acquaintance with their field of study. However, little has been written on how Facebook is used methodologically in research that does not have social media sites as the main focus of interest. This article argues that engagement with Facebook as a methodological tool can be useful in research among migrants in highly politicised fields. Pointing to a discursive construction of Filipina au pairs as victims of labour exploitation, the article shows how fieldwork on Facebook enables the exploration of the ways in which the au pairs resist and embrace such dominant representations, and on how such representations are ascribed different meanings in the transnational social fields of which the migrant are a part. The article is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2010 and 2014 in Denmark, the Philippines and on Facebook.

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“…The third perspective links the au pair scheme to the biographical background of its participants and explains their short-term migratory choices and consequential mobilities with reference to conditions in the context of origin, especially the family and social network (Rohde 2011;Rohde 2012). The biographical perspective on the au pair stay focuses on the specific life phase of youth and young adulthood, in which au pairing takes place.…”

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Finding Oneself Abroad: Au pairs’ strategies of self-positioning in hosting societies

Rohde-Abuba¹,

Tkach

2016

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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From Germany with Love: Transnational Family Networks and Daughterhood Constructions of Russian Au Pair Migrants

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Filipino Au Pairs on the Move: <i>Navigating strong and weak ties in the search of future paths</i>

Filipino Au Pairs on the Move: <i>Navigating strong and weak ties in the search of future paths</i>

Au Pairs on Facebook: <i>Ethnographic use of social media in politicised fields</i>

Finding Oneself Abroad: <i>Au pairs’ strategies of self-positioning in hosting societies</i>

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