Transnational networks of care: Angolan children in fosterage in Portugal
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This article is about the informal circulation of children who migrate from Angola to Portugal without their birth parents or primary caretakers. It explores the motivations underlying kinship care, and the relationships through which child circulation is negotiated. In this discussion, I also look at how this practice is transformed by migration, turning local relations into transnational networks of care. Finally, I argue that child circulation as a social practice can create, maintain or lessen the amount of social capital of the people implicated.
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Receiving a child in a society in which child fostering is informally institutionalized offers status and respect to the caregiver.
“Receiving a child in a society in which child fostering is informally institutionalized offers status and respect to the caregiver (Åkesson et al. 2012; Øien 2006).”
From Navigating transnational childcare relationships: migrant parents and their children's caregivers in the origin country (2017) · cites this paper as Øien 2006
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- Authors
- Øien, C.
- Corresponding author
- Øien, Cecilie
- Venue
- Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2006-11
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1104-1117
- ISSN
- 0141-9870 (ISSN-L)
- 1466-4356
- OpenAlex
- W2089400254
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2023: 12 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 4.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Ethnic and Racial Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- child migration, fostering, kinship care, social capital
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