Making Lithuanian Families Across Borders

Juozeliūnienė, Irena; Seymour, Julie

doi:10.15388/openseries.2020.19665

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“…In these cases, interviews were conducted either via Skype video call (M1, M2, M3) or face to face in Lithuania during their short-term visits during the holiday periods (M4, M5, M6, M7). All interviews were carried out employing the four-step visual Mapping method (Juozeliūnienė, 2014).…”

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How Transnational Mothering is Seen to be ‘Troubling’: Contesting and Reframing Mothering

Juozeliūnienė

Budginaitė

2018

Sociological Research Online

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This article aims to examine how changes in mothering induced by international migration become transformed into ‘troubles’. Based on the analysis of 79 selected articles on transnational families published between 2004 and 2013 in national press and Internet media portals in Lithuania, along with interviews with transnational mothers conducted between 2008 and 2014, the authors raise questions about how changes in mothering due to migration come to be constructed as troubles and how mothers who emigrate to work abroad while their children remain living in the country of origin engage in mothering display. The authors bridge Goffman’s theoretical ideas with the current frame of family display suggested by Finch to extend the understanding about the ways the scripts of ‘good mothering’ are both referenced and transformed through multi-local interactions. The analysis of the portrayal of transnational mothers in mass media demonstrates how mothering across borders is scripted. The cases discussed by the authors show the way transnational mothers respond to the discrediting scripts and normalize troubles, investing in bringing new meanings to mothering. The analysis of newly emerging transnational practices gives empirical evidence to the assumption that transnational mothers do not simply ‘follow’ scripts but also shift them and create new stories of mothering.

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How Transnational Mothering is Seen to be ‘Troubling’: Contesting and Reframing Mothering

Juozeliūnienė

Budginaitė

2018

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“…The prevalence of siblings over other relatives or parents' spouses shows that (adult) children are the main responsible and main resource for care and support towards older parents. Responsibility for providing the child(ren) remaining in Lithuania with living quarters quite often fell on the shoulders of the family of orientation (including siblings) (44.9%) in transnational child-care arrangements (6.2%; Juozeliūnienė et al, 2020).…”

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Siblings as Overlooked Potential for Care and Support Across Households and Borders

Budginaitė‐Mačkinė

Juozeliūnienė

2023

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The growing numbers of Lithuanian families living across borders have prompted the reflection on family relations through the lens of the need for care and support of dependent children and elderly parents. The authors of this article expand the analysis of family lives in the migration context beyond child–parent relationships and shift the attention to understudied areas where sibling relationships are located. Sibling relationships are considered embedded within the family and the wider network of personal relationships. This article builds on the personal networks approach to examine the position of siblings in the personal networks of Lithuanian family members and draws on a toolbox of analytical concepts provided by the solidarity approach to disclose how sibling relationships could come into play in the case of need. The analysis of statistical data and two surveys carried out in Lithuania as part of the research project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania enabled the authors to uncover different layers of involvement of siblings in “doing families” across households and borders and to highlight the gendered patterns of support expectations towards siblings if/when the need of elderly or child care would arise in the migration context. The research data provide empirical evidence that sibling relationships could be affected by differentiated mobility experiences of family members and the re‐definition of family roles due to newly emerging multi‐local interactions. Cross‐border family practices create new patterns of family relationships and an “intimate, but different” type of solidarity, common to Lithuanian residents with prior migration experience.

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“…Migration was not one of the themes researched by the group of scholars focusing on "family troubles". However, the usefulness of this theoretical framework for researching families in the migration context and across diverse cultures has already been acknowledged elsewhere (Juozeliūnienė & Budginaitė, 2018;Juozeliūnienė et al, 2020a;Ribbens McCarthy & Gillies, 2018) and it serves as a basis for this paper. Transnational parenting is at the core of debates about the moral imperative of being responsible parents (especially mothers) and fulfilling family responsibilities (see: Duque-Paramo, 2013;Gu et al, 2022;Phoenix, 2019).…”

Section: Researching "Family Troubles" In the Context Of Migrationmentioning

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“…Transnational parenting is at the core of debates about the moral imperative of being responsible parents (especially mothers) and fulfilling family responsibilities (see: Duque-Paramo, 2013;Gu et al, 2022;Phoenix, 2019). The review of Lithuanian academic publications between 2004 and 2017 (Juozeliūnienė et al, 2020a;2020b), shows that when negative framing is used in the media, scripts such as disrupting family relations, abandoning children, misinterpreting parental responsibilities, putting one's own needs first instead of prioritising the needs of the child are employed.…”

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Representations of transnational childhoods and childhoods abroad in Lithuanian media discourse

Budginaite-Mackine

2023

Problemy Polityki Społecznej

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The Lithuanian population has been highly mobile since joining the EU. Consequently, life across borders has become a common experience for many children and young people from Lithuania. This article first examines the extent to which Lithuanian media (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020)(2021) captures the experiences of Lithuanian children living abroad and of those who remain in Lithuania when their parents emigrate. It then focuses on a subsample of news items which portray mobile and transnational childhoods as "vulnerable" and in need of protection, building on the concepts of "family troubles" and "troubling families" (McCarthy et al., 2013). The findings reveal that the constructions of childhoods in the migration context are grounded in two powerful imaginaries -one linked with migration and the other tied to the notion of family. The increasing diversity of family forms challenges the strong imaginary of the national-bound single household family unit as the norm and reveals the media's power in defining "good families" and "appropriate" childhoods.

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Making Lithuanian Families Across Borders

Cited by 4 publications

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How Transnational Mothering is Seen to be ‘Troubling’: Contesting and Reframing Mothering

How Transnational Mothering is Seen to be ‘Troubling’: Contesting and Reframing Mothering

Siblings as Overlooked Potential for Care and Support Across Households and Borders

Representations of transnational childhoods and childhoods abroad in Lithuanian media discourse

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