Sibling Support in Transnational Families: The Impact of Migration and Mobility on Sibling Relationships of Support Over Time and Distance

Baldassar, Loretta; Brandhorst, Rosa María

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-55985-4_14

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“…Although Jack declined this offer, he interpreted it as a caring effort to construct family cohesion. For him, differentiating transnational and translocal separation was meaningless; intimate relationships mattered more than the geographic distance created by internal or international migration as the care circulation literature suggests (Baldassar & Brandhorst, 2021). Collaborating with siblings abroad to care for the older generation also seemed feasible for the future.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…What we term as relational comparison focuses on caregivers’ situated knowledge within family networks, capturing how they feel about myriad and intersecting family connections by judging the efforts that different kinfolk make to fulfill their responsibilities and obligations. Siblinghood, like other types of kin relations, has emotional, performative, and relational dimensions that involve the negotiation of the disjuncture between expectations and realities (Baldassar & Brandhorst, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Intimacies Compared: The Emotional Responses of Family Caregivers to Internal and International Migration

Sun

Cao

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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This article takes a relational approach to studying the effects of internal and international migration on family intimacies. Drawing on interviews with adult children caring for parents back home, we examine how caregivers respond to the roles that dispersed siblings play in networks of eldercare. Using the concept of “relational comparison”—defined as how caregivers judge the efforts that different kinfolks make to fulfill their responsibilities and obligations—we argue that the impact of national borders and geographic distance on parental care should be assessed through the intimacies that multilocal families co-create. The (mis)alignment between non-migrant caregivers’ expectations and their migrant siblings’ practices generates myriad emotional responses, shaping whether they view the impact of international and internal migration on eldercare as largely similar, fundamentally different, or simply insignificant. These feelings affect who caregivers turn to when they need help, further shaping the configuration of care networks during moments of crisis.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Intimacies Compared: The Emotional Responses of Family Caregivers to Internal and International Migration

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Cao

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Although they came from primarily working‐class families, their ‘foreign’ levels of capital, and spending habits as leisure consumers in particular (see also Wagner, 2019 ), made them stand out as affluent individuals in the Ghanaian context. While acknowledging migration and global disparities (Baldassar & Brandenhorst, 2021 ), some of young people's family members, including siblings, and other local peers, were also relatively privileged compared to the majority of Ghanaians. At the start of fieldwork, most participants attended secondary vocational education or universities of applied sciences.…”

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Following the ‘hype’: The role of leisure practices during ‘homeland’ visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana

Ankobrey

2022

Global Networks

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Drawing on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, this paper combines 'return' mobilities literature and youth studies to analyse the role of leisure practices during 'homeland' visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana when they are entering into adulthood. Using the notion of mobility trajectories, the paper shows that leisure practices facilitate young people's ability to establish and renew intimate transnational relationships with diasporic friends, and Ghana-based same-generation relatives and romantic partners.Differing from earlier stays in Ghana, young people expressed their emerging sense of independence by exploring alternative sides of the country with these peers, based on common interests and belonging to the same life-cycle cohort. The findings add complexity to the notion of the 'homeland' as a monolithic place of reconnecting with family and roots by drawing attention to the intersection between young people's pathways to adulthood and transnational mobility.

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“…Some transnational family researchers focus on sibling relationships due to the significant role they play as potential primary caregivers alongside other family members who remain in the country of origin (Kordasiewicz et al, 2018). Siblings are "invariably caught up" in the various forms of mobility and both transnationally mobile siblings and siblings who continue to live in the country of origin are influenced by the roles each other performs in the family (Baldassar & Brandhorst, 2021). The research studies show that sibling relationships are embedded within the close family and the wider network of personal relationships (Szydlik, 2008).…”

Section: Theoretical Considerationsmentioning

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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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Sibling Support in Transnational Families: The Impact of Migration and Mobility on Sibling Relationships of Support Over Time and Distance

Cited by 12 publications

References 20 publications

Intimacies Compared: The Emotional Responses of Family Caregivers to Internal and International Migration

Intimacies Compared: The Emotional Responses of Family Caregivers to Internal and International Migration

Following the ‘hype’: The role of leisure practices during ‘homeland’ visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana

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

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