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TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES AND THE PROVISION OF MORAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRUTH AND DISTANCE
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This article is an ethnographic analysis of transnational family links between adult migrant children living in Australia and their kin in Italy, from the 1950s to the present. A key focus of the article is the persistence of bonds of emotion across distance. Drawing on Finch and Mason's research on caregiving relationships and Hochschild's work on emotional labour, it explores both the positive experiences as well as the tensions associated with the transnational exchange of moral and emotional support. The findings confirm the perseverance of bonds of emotion across distance and thus challenge arguments about the declining bonds within translocal families as a result of globalising processes. The role that new communication technologies play in sustaining these bonds is offered as a possible explanation to account for the apparent increase in the frequency of transnational emotional interaction over time. The article also calls for further work on the influence of physical co-presence or absence on emotional interaction over distance.
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“Despite the emotional suffering that results from geographical separation, family members can live 'apart-together' (Baldassar 2007;Mazzucato and Schans 2011) through transnational family practices such as long-distance communication, return visits and sending money.”
From Navigating transnational childcare relationships: migrant parents and their children's caregivers in the origin country (2017) · cites this paper as Baldassar 2007
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“Such studies point to the diverse ways in which family members maintain a feeling of co-presence through long-distance communication, such as telephone calls, text messages, letters, remittances, photos, and visits (Baldassar 2007;Mason 2004;Parreñas 2005;Zontini 2004).”
From Navigating transnational childcare relationships: migrant parents and their children's caregivers in the origin country (2017) · cites this paper as Baldassar 2007
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“New information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly mobile phones (Vertovec 2004) and the internet (Madianou 2012;Wilding 2006), have increased the possibilities for migrants and non-migrants to engage in each other's lives, facilitating the active re-creation of family ties and emotional bonds across borders (Baldassar 2007).”
From Navigating transnational childcare relationships: migrant parents and their children's caregivers in the origin country (2017) · cites this paper as Baldassar 2007
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“Visits allow parents to see the situation for themselves, which helps to loosen some of the strains associated with 'truth and distance' (Baldassar 2007).”
From Navigating transnational childcare relationships: migrant parents and their children's caregivers in the origin country (2017) · cites this paper as Baldassar 2007
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- Authors
- Baldassar, L.
- Affiliations
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Baldassar, Loretta
- ORCID
- Baldassar, Loretta
- Venue
- Identities
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2007-10-15
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 385-409
- ISSN
- 1070-289X (ISSN-L)
- 1547-3384
- OpenAlex
- W2036930388
- Cited by
- 344
- References
- 30
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- FWCI
- 15.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Identities (publishedVersion)
- UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Keywords
- transnational families, migrant children, emotional support, moral support, emotional labor, caregiving relationships, communication technology, globalization, kinship ties
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