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The Structuring of Feeling in Ghanaian Transnational Families

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COE, CATI·2008·City & Society
DOI 10.1111/j.1548-744x.2008.00018.x
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Studies exploring the emotional experiences of members of transnational families have often highlighted the emotional suffering of mothers and children separated from one another as a result of transnational migration. Taking Ghana as a case example, this paper complicates this picture by showing how parents and children in Ghanaian transnational families have different emotional responses to their separation, in which the parents express less suffering over the situation than their children. Their different discourses about the goals for parent‐child relationships and their sense of agency in achieving these goals affect their expression of emotions. This paper argues that we need to pay attention to the ideologies and sense of agency of social actors in different social positions in order to understand the ways that transnational migration structures feelings.

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Authors
COE, C.
Affiliations
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
Corresponding author
COE, CATI
ORCID
COE, CATI
Venue
City & Society
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2008-12
Volume
20
Issue
2
Pages
222-250
ISSN
  • 0893-0465 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-744X
DOI
10.1111/j.1548-744x.2008.00018.x
OpenAlex
W2166036452
Cited by
90
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 10
FWCI
8.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 8 d)
Locations
  • City & Society (publishedVersion)
  • Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) (acceptedVersion)
  • Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › China's Global Influence and Migration
Keywords
transnational families, transnational migration, emotional experience, parent-child separation, Ghanaian migrants, emotional pain, sense of agency, social status, parent-child relationship

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