Introduction: the absent child and transnational families

Butt, Leslie

doi:10.1111/glob.12173

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“…According to Agamben, some people who physically live in the sovereign territory are denied their socio‐political existence unless they are recognized by states (1998, p. 88). This is what subsequent scholars call the “power of citizenship regimes” that confer life and privilege to some (Butt, , p. 130, referring to Fassin, ). In this line of arguments, attribution of nationality at birth is only half of the story; people must prove their entitlement to their nationality, such as the completion of a birth registration form (van Waas, , p. 447).…”

Section: Traditional Theories: Binary Framework Based On Political Rmentioning

confidence: 94%

Transnational regimes of labor and statelessness: Intersections of citizenship regimes and local norms in East and Southeast Asia

Ishii

2020

Sociology Compass

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This article offers a review of the literature on transnational labor regimes and statelessness to pursue further theorization from East and Southeast Asian contexts. The main focus is on how local norms (local sense of belonging, local moral code, and local hierarchies) are entangled with national-level citizenship regimes to legitimate the discrimination of certain people to be statelessness and secure lowwage migrant workers for the new global labor regime. First, traditional literature on citizenship and statelessness was reviewed; binary theoretical frameworks (including citizens/ excluding non-citizens) based on political recognition were indicated as the main limitations. Second, recent theories arguing for an intersection between national citizenship regimes and a new global labor regime were reviewed. Third, recent theories that illuminate the importance of local contexts in determining citizens' rights were reviewed based on formal exclusion and informal inclusion as well as formal inclusion and informal exclusion. Finally, it was concluded that further theorization is needed on how citizenship regimes and local norms intersect to produce statelessness, securing low-wage migrant workers for the global labor regime through the global assemblages approach. Through

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Section: Traditional Theories: Binary Framework Based On Political Rmentioning

confidence: 94%

Transnational regimes of labor and statelessness: Intersections of citizenship regimes and local norms in East and Southeast Asia

Ishii

2020

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“…Reproductive technologies such as IVF play a complex role in processes of citizenship (Kahn 2000) and belonging more broadly, and are involved in the process of augmenting the social body implicitly in the process of acquiring other forms of legitimating one's relationship to the absent child (Butt 2018). These processes of externalizing and distributing elements of the self into objects and relationships outside the physical body are key to understanding how children can be made to come into being (Butt 2018).…”

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“…These processes of externalizing and distributing elements of the self into objects and relationships outside the physical body are key to understanding how children can be made to come into being (Butt 2018). As Betsi's narrative shows, the failure of technologies like IVF to bring forth a desired child may make the child's absence more acutely felt and unravel various forms of belonging and problems of not belonging for an Indonesian migrant woman in Australia with a 'natural' gendered expectation of forming a heteronormative family.…”

Section: Betsi: the Limits Of Ivf And Adopting Nieces As A Family Exmentioning

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“…Absent children call into question taken-for-granted assumptions about the needs and social realities of migrant women and their family relationships (Butt 2018). I discuss the three women's narratives in terms of how both the absent children the women desired but did not conceive with their ex-husbands and the absent adopted nieces and nephews living in Indonesia advance different personal and family agendas in a complicated global arena of mobility and containment.…”

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Don't call me ibu: challenges of belonging for childless transnational Indonesian women

Winarnita

2017

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“…Left Behind Children (LBC) are usually known as the offspring who are left behind in their original country when their parents immigrate to another part of the nation, or even to another country. Butt (2018) elucidates the matter whilst commenting that, "A child may be physically absent yet vitally present in a family's emotional and strategic landscape. Within transnational families, absent children include, but are not limited to, 'hidden' children who have been given away, left behind, aborted, fostered, institutionalized or abandoned; desired or imagined children who have never been born; children who are gone but not forgotten; children who live as ghosts in their family's daily lives" (p. 127).…”

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The Impact of Parental Migration on Emotional Health of Left Behind Children: A Study with Brazilian Immigrants in The United States

Clark¹

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Although immigration is part of the geopolitical landscape in the United States, there is little research investigating the harmful effects caused by parental migration on left behind children's mental health. This is the first known study conducted in the country that investigated the impact of parental migration on the emotional health of Brazilian left behind children. The sample comprised of 50 participants. The mean separation time found between children and parents was 7.33 years. In some the separation was still ongoing. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and an interview were utilized in this study. The SDQ results revealed that participants had problems in one or more of the following areas: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity and peer problems.Surprisingly, 80 percent of the participants showed no problems regarding prosocial abilities. Significant positive correlations were found between the following scales: prosocial and peer problems, emotional problems and hyperactivity, conduct problems and hyperactivity and finally, between prosocial and conduct problems.Additionally, it was observed that being left by the mother seems to be more damaging than being left by the father or both parents. It was also found that girls are apparently more prone to develop emotional problems than boys. On top of these results, a range of symptoms was reported by the participants. They were previously diagnosed or had received treatment for problems such as, anxiety disorder, panic disorder, eating disorder, depression, psychotic-like experiences, abuse of alcohol/drugs, suicide ideation, loneliness, and low self-esteem. This research substantiates the hypothesis that parental migration causes a hurtful impact on emotional health of left behind children and can be used as a guide for welfare policies and to design intervention programs.

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Introduction: the absent child and transnational families

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Transnational regimes of labor and statelessness: Intersections of citizenship regimes and local norms in East and Southeast Asia

Transnational regimes of labor and statelessness: Intersections of citizenship regimes and local norms in East and Southeast Asia

Don't call me ibu: challenges of belonging for childless transnational Indonesian women

The Impact of Parental Migration on Emotional Health of Left Behind Children: A Study with Brazilian Immigrants in The United States

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