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Transnational Families and Aged Care: The Mobility of Care and the Migrancy of Ageing
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This paper is an ethnographic exploration of a seldom-discussed ‘micro’ dimension of transnational studies, the practices of long-distance family relations and aged care. The importance of time as a key variable in transnational research is demonstrated through comparisons of the care exchanges of three cohorts of Italian migrants in Australia and their kin in Italy. A focus on ‘transnationalism from below’, the more quotidian and domestic features of transmigrant experience, highlights the importance of considering the role of homeland kin and communities in discussions of migration. The analysis of transnational care-giving practices illustrates that migrancy is sometimes triggered by the need to give or receive care rather than the more commonly assumed ‘rational’ economic motivations. Transnational lives are thus shaped by the ‘economies of kinship’, which develop across changing state (‘macro’), community (‘meso’) and family migration (‘micro’) histories, including, in particular, culturally constructed notions of ‘ideal’ family relations and obligations, as well as notions of ‘successful’ migration and ‘licence to leave’.
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“migrants’ parents also represent “active members in (transnational) networks that mobilize kin and community resources” (Baldassar 2007: 278).”
From Transnational grandparenting in the digital age: mediated co-presence and childcare in the case of Romanian migrants in Switzerland and Canada (2017) · cites this paper as Baldassar 2007
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“Transnational family studies stressed that there are life-course events that demand hands-on care support (Baldassar 2007; Baldassar et al. 2007; Merla 2014).”
From Transnational grandparenting in the digital age: mediated co-presence and childcare in the case of Romanian migrants in Switzerland and Canada (2017) · cites this paper as Baldassar 2007
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Metadata
- Authors
- Baldassar, L.
- Corresponding author
- Baldassar, Loretta
- ORCID
- Baldassar, Loretta
- Venue
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2007-03
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 275-297
- ISSN
- 1369-183X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-9451
- OpenAlex
- W1974371484
- Cited by
- 452
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 69 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 44 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 21 · 2013: 22 · 2012: 20
- FWCI
- 32.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (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 › Demography › Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Keywords
- transnational families, elderly care, aging, migration motives, kinship obligations, family migration
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