ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: challenging the premise of face-to-face proximity in sustaining relationships

Baldassar, Loretta; Nedelcu, Mihaela; Merla, Laura; Wilding, Raelene

doi:10.1111/glob.12108

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“…It is evident from our respondents' accounts that the growth of globalization, as well as the advent of the internet and Skype, have enabled these migrants to maintain transnational ties through regular and affordable communication (Baldassar et al 2016;Perkins and Neumeyer 2013).…”

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“…In our most recent collaborative work we attempt to hypothesise and interrogate claims about new forms of caring and co-presence across distance (Baldassar et al, 2016a;2016b). Because all forms of caring from a distance in transnational families are mediated by information and communication technologies (ICTs), an analysis of their role is central to this discussion (Baldassar, 2016).…”

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Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts

Merla

Baldassar

2016

PapRevSoc

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In this paper, Laura Merla and Loretta Baldassar address some of the key critiques that were formulated in this symposium on the 'care circulation" perspective these two authors offered in their edited volume entitled "Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care". Here, they focus in particular on three themes: care as social capital, the need to bring back 'the political', and the (dis)-embodiment of care practices. They highlight in particular that 'care chains' and 'care circulation' should not be seen as opposite, but rather as complementary perspectives. Keywords: gender; care; social capital; transnational families; social reproduction; body; ICT Resumen. Reflexiones finales. La «circulación del cuidado» en un mundo cada vez más móvil: nuevas reflexionesEste simposio ofrece una discusión crítica de las lógicas y dinámicas en torno a la nueva perspectiva de la «circulación del cuidado» presentadas por Loretta Baldassar y Laura Merla en su volumen titulado Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care. En esta contribución, las autoras abordan tres temas: el cuidado como capital social, la necesidad de recuperar «lo político» y la (des)-corporalidad de las prácticas de cuidado. Subrayan el hecho que ambos enfoques, las «cadenas globales» y la «circulación del cuidado», no deberían verse como opuestos, sino más bien como perspectivas complementarias.

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“…Interestingly, while Finch and Mason did not confine their analyses to family obligations towards younger children or to caring and migrant families, their concepts became notably important in the scholarship on transnational families. Running parallel to other influential studies on parenting and particularly transnational parenting (Carling et al, 2012;Miller, 2017), researches on transnational families and care by Baldassar (2007), Baldassar and Merla (2013) and many others actively applied Finch's (1989) terminology on various types of family support to describe them as types of transnational care in all permutations as exchanged between family members across distance and over time.…”

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“…Thinking of families in transnational terms led to an increased attempt to reconceptualize the notion of migrant families regarding the spatio-temporal dimensions of their mobile lives, transnational parenting and the mobility of care (Baldassar, 2007;Carling et al, 2012;Baldassar and Merla, 2013;Kilkey and Palenga-Möllenbeck, 2016;Merla and Baldassar, 2016). Initially, the recent conceptual development of families "living together across distance" (Baldassar and Merla, 2013, p 19) questions the normative perception about family occupying one locus of residence and about living in close geographic proximity as a necessary condition to maintain significant intimate and social ties.…”

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“…As some scholars have already shown, the issues of transnational families and care are widely researched phenomena (Carling et al, 2012;Baldassar and Merla, 2013;Kilkey and PalengaMöllenbeck, 2016). However, transnational family obligations in relation to children are still significantly understudied in the geographical context of a larger Europe (Ducu and Telegdi-Csetri, 2016), with some exceptions shown in the research on Polish families in the UK, Ireland and Norway (White, 2010;Friberg, 2012;McGhee et al, 2013;Bell and Bivand Erdal, 2015;Slany and Pustulka, 2016;Slany et al, 2018).…”

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Family obligations across European borders: negotiating migration decisions within the families of post-accession migrants in Sweden

Gréen

Melander

2018

Palgrave Commun

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The negotiation of migration decisions within the families of post-accession mobile workers from Poland and Romania in Sweden is explored through the concept of family obligations. This study departs from Finch's (1987) and Mason's (1996) seminal works, which identified a wide range of supportive (and non-supportive) exchanges and negotiated commitments within families and their kin. Drawing on Mason's (1996) definition of care as both sentient activity and active sensibility, we seek to understand how migrant parents negotiate their migration decisions as an act of care and responsibility, but also as morally imbued obligations in relation to their children. As an analytical tool, the lifeline method (Davies, 1996) is used to capture key moments and events shaping the migration decisions of European workers' families, which include their motivations to pursue migration, the gendered patterns of care shaping their migration decisions, and moral reasoning over what is the right thing to do in relation to caring for their children. The analysis shows that mobile families' decisions to migrate are 'livelihood strategies' involving complex and dynamic negotiations over the options and resources of entire families and their kin across generations and transnational locations. While reflecting on their decisions over time, both migrant parents express their genuine involvement in caring responsibilities. However, the actual practice shows that caring is still a gendered activity. Finally, the decision to migrate shows that migration itself can be seen as an act of relational and emotional caring involving moral reasoning, feelings and thoughts through which migrant parents negotiate their "good parenthood".

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ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: challenging the premise of face-to-face proximity in sustaining relationships

Cited by 254 publications

References 13 publications

Leveraging symbolic capital: the use of blat networks across transnational spaces

Leveraging symbolic capital: the use of blat networks across transnational spaces

Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts

Family obligations across European borders: negotiating migration decisions within the families of post-accession migrants in Sweden

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