Transnational Family Reunions as Lived Experience: Narrating a Salvadoran Autoethnography

Ramírez, Marco Antonio Chávez; Skrbiš, Zlatko; Emmison, Michael

doi:10.1080/10702890701578456

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“…In particular, it is difficult to find work that explores what migrants and their offspring might do in their country of ancestral origin besides reuniting with family members (cf. Ali and Holden 2006;Feng and Page 2000;Ramirez, Skrbiš, and Emmison 2007), even while acknowledging that VFR tourists also engage in consumption that helps the 'homeland' economy (Asiedu 2005). The basis for the present research, in contrast, is specifically on practices rather than discourses, with an empirical focus on where the population in question visits while in Morocco, how they spend their time while there, and how these observed practices relate to different discourses of attachment and the desire to belong as a community member at 'home'.…”

Section: Actualities Of 'Return': Seasonal Presence Of Dvsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Trouble at home: diasporic second homes as leisure space across generations

Wagner

2013

Annals of Leisure Research

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Like migrants from various southern sending countries, many Moroccan post-war guest worker migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands invested part of their foreign earnings in building a house in Morocco. These houses were often earmarked for eventual retirement, but over the course of years of return visits became the familial vacation home in their place of origin. Their cyclical presence enabled ongoing communion with family in Morocco, while also often exacerbating economic inequalities among family members resulting from migration. As post-migrant generations of Moroccans from Europe are now purchasing homes in Morocco, their choices indicate how diasporic property ownership over progressive generations may tend more towards leisure-oriented second homes rather than the stereotypical image of migrant investment in place-attached 'hometown' houses.

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Section: Actualities Of 'Return': Seasonal Presence Of Dvsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Trouble at home: diasporic second homes as leisure space across generations

Wagner

2013

Annals of Leisure Research

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“…Yet all move in relation to households, and even those who decline to remit make decisions that impact households and the communities left behind (Grasmuck & Pessar 1991). Whereas some sending households are never satisfied with the efforts of their mobile members, there are some migrant workers who plan to remit regularly but cannot (Ramirez et al 2007, Sanchez 2007, Tatla 2002. And remittance practices change over time and as migrants engage in new jobs, establish new relationships, and enter new stages of their lives (Al-Sharmani 2006, Bacallao & Smokowski 2007, Boehm 2008, Foner 1997, Heymann et al 2009, Levitt & Lamba-Nieves 2011, Oropesa & Landale 1997, Schmalzbauer 2008.…”

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Migration, Remittances, and Household Strategies

Cohen

2011

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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“…None of the pictures sent can have the same value or be measured against the same scale (Ramirez et al 2007). Thus, while pictures from Ukraine have more emotional value, those from Italy have to be much more carefully selected in terms of how they represent the migrants' lives.…”

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Images of Transnational Motherhood: The Role of Photographs in Measuring Time and Maintaining Connections between Ukraine and Italy

Fedyuk

2012

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Photographs occupy a special place among the tokens of love and care that glue together transnational families: they fill in the absences, compensate for the lack of intimacy and serve as a reminder of the 'other life' that was disrupted by migration. Through examining the photos that circulate between Ukrainian migrant mothers in Italy and their families at home, I try to grasp desired representations of migration and home, motherhood and family. Collected during fieldwork in Italy and Ukraine, and interpreted in the light of interviews and participant observation, the photographs studied often unravel the conflicting interests within transnational families. The article shows how the pictures that flow between Ukraine and Italy measure time differently abroad and at home, reflect the imagination of success and failure in migration, and illustrate how responsibilities and obligations are unequally distributed within transnational families.

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Transnational Family Reunions as Lived Experience: Narrating a Salvadoran Autoethnography

Cited by 20 publications

References 18 publications

Trouble at home: diasporic second homes as leisure space across generations

Trouble at home: diasporic second homes as leisure space across generations

Migration, Remittances, and Household Strategies

Images of Transnational Motherhood: The Role of Photographs in Measuring Time and Maintaining Connections between Ukraine and Italy

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