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Transnational families, migration and the circulation of care : understanding mobility and absence in family life /
Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Transnationalism. Routledge research in transnationalism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative conceptualisations of this type of family. It re-conceptualises transnational care as a set of activities that circulates between home and host countries - across generations - and fluctuates over the life course, going beyond a focus on mother-child relationships to include multidirectional exc. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (321 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135132255 1135132259 |