Mother, grandmother, migrant: Elder translocality and the renegotiation of household roles in Cambodia

Lawreniuk, Sabina; Parsons, Laurie

doi:10.1177/0308518x17704197

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“…Although Yay Mom does not state the reason for not following her fellow landless villagers into rural wage labour, her age is the likely factor. In Cambodia, few migrant occupations accept workers older than their 50 s (Lawreniuk and Parsons, 2017), whilst begging is a rare occupation in which income is greater for the same demographic.…”

Section: Translocalitymentioning

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Structuring the emotional landscape of climate change migration: Towards climate mobilities in geography

Parsons

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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The literature on climate migration is increasingly concerned with linking the natural-environmental and socio-cultural dimensions of risk response. However, the epistemological disjuncture between ‘objective’ and subjective accounts of the environment is an impediment. In particular, despite clear evidence of mutual relevance, work on the emotional landscape of climate change has remained separate from more systematic analyses. Aiming to resolve this, this paper uses the case of a Cambodian beggar to show how recent developments across three fields have laid the groundwork for the structural and emotional dimensions of climate change response to be engaged with under a coherent theoretical rubric.

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Section: Translocalitymentioning

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Structuring the emotional landscape of climate change migration: Towards climate mobilities in geography

Parsons

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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“…57–58). Underpinning this process, what was always a mobile population (Kalab, ) has become a hyper‐mobile one, as urban employment has become a key dimension of rural livelihoods (Lawreniuk & Parsons, ; Lim, , p. 13). Now one of the most open economies in one of the most open regions in the world (Trade Related Assistance Cambodia [TRAC], ), Cambodia's rural areas – long vulnerable to the changing climate (Doch et al., ) – have been transformed by debt (Bateman, ), migration (Bylander & Hamilton, ), rural marketisation (Parsons, ), and urbanisation (Flower, ).…”

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Giving as a total social phenomenon: Towards a human geography of reciprocity

Parsons

2019

Geographical Journal

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This paper explores how small group sharing practices contribute to wider community hierarchies. Using a combination of qualitative, quantitative and network data, the paper shows how small group reciprocal practices overlap to generate key nodes within community scale networks, creating hierarchies and information inequalities in each site. Thus, the paper aims to draw closer conceptual linkages between close knit, "bonding" relationships, livelihoods and community hierarchy by emphasising how reciprocal risk mitigation practices function as an intermediary process between climate-dependent livelihoods and power relations within community-scale networks. By applying this broader, mixed methods interpretation of gift giving and reciprocity to an area usually interpreted with a single scalar and methodological approach, the paper makes a case for greater focus on the structural dimensions of giving and reciprocity in geography. K E Y W O R D SCambodia, inequality, reciprocity, social networks 1 | INTRODUCTION Giving, as Marcel Mauss famously explained, is a process full of meaning. Though a gift may appear to be generously offered, it is never discrete or disinterested. Rather, the "formal pretence and social deception" (Mauss, 1967, p. 2) of generosity disguises a key role in social construction: givers and receivers are linked to each other in durable relationships, expectations are generated, and reciprocity is born. Giving and receiving are therefore acts with great social significanceeach containing "all the threads of which the social fabric is composed" (Mauss, 1967, p. 2)yet each is also linked to its environment. The meaning of an exchange depends upon the circumstances, from wealth to the weather, in which it takes place. It is a "total social phenomenon" (Mauss, 1967, p. 2) in which context, meaning and power interplay.Yet despite this, the wider resonance of reciprocal practice has fragmented in contemporary geography. Conceptions of reciprocal behaviour remain narrowly defined and centred upon a simplistic conception of reciprocity as the exchange of equally valued goods between peers. In addition, its analysis has been impeded by metaphorical, often hierarchical, conceptions of power which have tended to be fixed at the community scale (Mistry et al., 2014) and rooted in long-standing and widespread conceptions of the village as the primary unit of analysis (Kemp, 1991).Aiming towards a closer, more holistic focus on reciprocity, this paper explores sharing within the context of close knit ties or "bonds of affection," using self-defined networks of close friends and associates to understand how these intimate relationships contribute to community-scale power structures. As it will show, loans in this contextgiven in times of need without formal conditions attachedtake on many of the social characteristics of a gift, cementing close ties and strengthening social relations in a manner rarely focused upon in the economically dominated literature (e.g.

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“…Scholars working on translocalism and transnationalism are well-equipped to articulate the forms of precarious labour and life bound up across the remittance-scapes (Brickell and Datta, 2011). This would enable the exploration of not only the physical and emotional labour undertaken by migrants in order to send remittances from remittance production-scapes, but also the kind of work, activities and sacrifices by the latter as well as members of remittance households in remittance preproduction- and reception-scapes (Lawreniuk and Parsons, 2017; McKay, 2007).…”

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Remittance-scapes: The contested geographies of remittance management

Guermond

2021

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The management of remittances represents a multi-billion industry that is concerned with how these flows can be tapped into by a wide range of institutional, state and private sector actors. This article advances the concept of remittance-scapes to signal the extensive work that is implicated in constructing remittances as development finance across four relational spaces of remittance management, namely, remittance preproduction-, production-, circulation- and reception-scapes. While human geographers have played a key role in unpacking many of the geographies of remittance management, I argue that thinking of remittances through the -scape provides new theoretical and empirical avenues to researching remittances.

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Mother, grandmother, migrant: Elder translocality and the renegotiation of household roles in Cambodia

Cited by 18 publications

References 86 publications

Structuring the emotional landscape of climate change migration: Towards climate mobilities in geography

Structuring the emotional landscape of climate change migration: Towards climate mobilities in geography

Giving as a total social phenomenon: Towards a human geography of reciprocity

Remittance-scapes: The contested geographies of remittance management

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