Journal articles: 'Transnational children'

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Oliveira, Gabrielle. "Transnational care constellations: Im/migrant families, children and education." Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture 11, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 187–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00024_1.

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Drawing on over a decade of empirical research, this article develops the framework of ‘Transnational Care Constellations’ in order to understand how mothers, children and caregivers are connected across national terrains. This approach takes into account the ways families organize care, economic, health and everyday decisions and focuses on relationships across nations. The purpose of this article is twofold: (1) to present relevant literature in transnational migration research that has led me to think about care as a central piece that keeps families together; and (2) to show through empirical ethnographic data three cases of families that are organized transnationally. This article also takes into consideration the impacts of a global pandemic in the modes of communication transnational care constellations have used.

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Alipio, Cheryll, Melody C. W. Lu, and Brenda S. A. Yeoh. "Asian children and transnational migration." Children's Geographies 13, no. 3 (March 27, 2015): 255–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2015.1025944.

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Al-Sharmani, Mulki, Marja Tiilikainen, and Sanna Mustasaari. "Transnational migrant families: navigating marriage, generation and gender in multiple spheres." Migration Letters 14, no. 1 (January 15, 2017): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v14i1.311.

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This special issue seeks to enrich readers’ understandings of the transnational family practices and relations of selected migrant groups of a predominantly Muslim background in a number of Western contexts. It presents theoretically and empirically grounded studies that investigate how these family practices and ties are transnationally shaped, navigated and experienced by different family members. It focuses on two aspects of family life: marriage and the second generation’s aspirations and transnational experiences. Under the first theme, this special issue examines how marriage, migration and kinship interplay in transnationally shaped social fields where multiple legal and normative systems intersect in the lives of migrants. With regards to the second theme, the issue investigates how the children of migrants navigate and experience transnational family norms, ties and practices. Throughout the issue, individual articles shed light on the gendered dimensions of the different family practices and experiences.

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Monico, Carmen. "Implications of irregular transnational adoptions within international standards: A review of intercountry adoption systems and Guatemalan birthmother perspectives." Childhood 28, no. 4 (November 2021): 509–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09075682211061982.

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With growing global emergencies, child abduction became a concern in countries of origin and reception of transnationally adopted children. Improved regulations and standards to prevent child trafficking exhibit failures to ensure the best interest of children and the principle of subsidiarity. The article reviews relevant literature documents the Guatemalan birthmothers’ experiences and documented child theft, deception by trafficking networks, fraudulent adoptions, and familial coercion. Human rights and child welfare system implications drawn may be relevant to irregular transnational adoptions elsewhere.

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Solari, Cinzia D. "Transnational moral economies: The value of monetary and social remittances in transnational families." Current Sociology 67, no. 5 (November 9, 2018): 760–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392118807531.

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Although migration scholars have called for studying both ends of migration, few studies have empirically done so. In this article the author analyzes ethnographic data conducted with migrant careworkers in Italy, many undocumented, and their non-migrant children in Ukraine to uncover the meanings they assign to monetary and also social remittances defined as the transfer of ideas, behaviors, and values between sending and receiving countries. The author argues that migrants and non-migrant children within transnational families produce a transnational moral economy or a set of social norms based on a shared migration discourse – in this case, either poverty or European aspirations – which governs economic and social practices in both sending and receiving sites. The author found that these contrasting transnational moral economies resulted in the production of ‘Soviet’ versus ‘capitalist’ subjectivities with consequences for migrant practices of integration in Italy, consumption practices for migrants and their non-migrant children, and for Ukraine’s nation-state building project.

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Putjata, Galina. "Language in transnational education trajectories between the Soviet Union, Israel and Germany. Participatory research with children." Transnational Education. A Concept for Institutional and Individual Perspectives 4, no. 4-2019 (December 3, 2019): 390–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/diskurs.v14i4.02.

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The paper focuses on language in transnational education and puts children’s perspectives in the spotlight. In light of increasing transnational mobility, their voices are of particular significance: How do transnational children – children with migration experience – perceive the role of languages in educational trajectories? In order to answer these questions, a qualitative study was conducted with children of Soviet immigrants who were socialized in a Hebrew-speaking education system and who are today pupils in Germany. The findings from group conversation and language portraits allow deep insights into children’s perspectives on multilingual practices and highlight the importance of the environment – in this case, a German school that became part of transnational education by offering opportunities for students with migration experience.

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Branco, Susan F., and Veronica Cloonan. "False Narratives: Illicit Practices in Colombian Transnational Adoption." Genealogy 6, no. 4 (September 28, 2022): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6040080.

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Evidence suggests Colombia’s transnational adoption program maintained systemic problematic practices, some of which were illicit in nature. Examples include child and birthmother trafficking, sale of children, and falsifying or omitting information in adoption documentation. Transnationally adopted Colombian adults encounter significant barriers to accessing their right to know their origins and identity. Despite this, some adult Colombian adoptees are successful in searching for and engaging in birth family reunions. Our study conducted a secondary analysis of an original study on Colombian birth family reunion experiences. We asked the research question, “What discrepancies exist in Colombian transnational adoption narratives?” to perform a directed qualitative content analysis of 17 participant interviews. We found nearly half of our participants reported an illicit practice categorized as child for sale, birthmother trafficking, and abuse of process. Findings underscore the legacy and impact of harmful adoption practices on current adult Colombian transnational adoptees seeking their human right to identity.

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Liu, Xiao. "Protection of Children’s Rights and Interests in Transnational Surrogacy -- From the Perspective of Parent-Child Relationship." International Research in Economics and Finance 6, no. 2 (May 28, 2022): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.20849/iref.v6i2.1192.

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The development of artificial reproductive technology and the legal difference of surrogacy lead to a large number of transnational surrogacy children and many disputes about the legal parent status of transnational surrogacy children. The main reasons for the difficulty in identifying the parental relationship of the present transnational surrogacy children are the different identification of the surrogacy agreement and the parent-child relationship in different countries, the emergence of the "lame parental right" caused by the application of the principle of public order, and the reflect to recognize the transnational surrogacy parent-child relationship on the grounds of legal evasion.Based on the analysis of the reasons for the difficulty in identifying the parent-child relationship and the experience of determining the surrogate parent-child relationship in various countries, the exploration of the path to determine the parent-child relationship of the transnational surrogacy children mainly includes establishing the parent-child relationship according to the surrogacy agreement, establishing the adoption relationship to establish the parent-child relationship, and redefining the parent-child relationship according to the conflict norms of the country where the intended parents are located.At present, there is no basic law to regulate surrogacy in China. In practice, the legal parents of surrogacy children are established in the way of confirming the parentage of factual support. On the premise of balancing the best interests of children and social public order, we should protect the right of identity of transnational surrogacy children by perfecting laws and regulations, and maximize the function of technology to benefit mankind.

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Nahdhah, Nahdhah, Norisnaniah Norisnaniah, and Maria Ulfah. "Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Hak-Hak Keperdataan Anak Dari Perkawinan Campuran Yang Tinggal Di Indonesia Berdasarkan Undang-Undang Nomor 12 Tahun 2006 Tentang Kewarganegaraan." Jurnal Penegakan Hukum Indonesia 3, no. 2 (July 8, 2022): 143–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.51749/jphi.v3i2.57.

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There were many cases derived from transnational marriages. For an instance, many Indonesian international students have married their spouses from the country where they are studying. Transnational marriage is prone to future conflicts, especially regarding the status of the children. The civil rights of children from a transnational married couple living in Indonesia are regulated on Act No. 12/2006 on Citizenship (Citizenship Act). This research is pure legal research that is carried out by examining previous literature. From this study, it was found that the status of children born from transnational families according to the Citizenship Act is based on bloodlines following the father. If the father is a foreign citizen, the child will also be a foreign citizen. On contrary, if the father is an Indonesian citizen, the legal status of the child is also as an Indonesian citizen, from here the role of the mother becomes neglected. Furthermore, Citizenship Act guarantees that the children have the right to determine or choose citizenship after the age of 18 years, the child is required to choose one nationality. Legal protection for children born from transnational marriages is the right to choose their nationality.

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Dreby, Joanna. "Children and Power in Mexican Transnational Families." Journal of Marriage and Family 69, no. 4 (November 2007): 1050–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00430.x.

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Mand, Kanwal. "‘I’ve got two houses. One in Bangladesh and one in London ... everybody has’: Home, locality and belonging(s)." Childhood 17, no. 2 (May 2010): 273–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0907568210365754.

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This article explores the experiences of ‘home’ for British-born Bangladeshi children who are active members of transnational families. The article illustrates that these children, who are mobile between Sylhet and London, play an active role in maintaining transnational linkages. The article critiques the omission of children’s perspectives in understanding ideas and practices of ‘home’ within the diaspora and among transnational families. A key finding is that while children identify Sylhet and London as ‘home’, the experience of these places differs in accordance with the different social relations, practices and material circumstances through which they experience these places.

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Hui, Yat Man Louise, Julie Stevenson, and Gisselle Gallego. "Transnational parent–child separation and reunion during early childhood in Chinese migrant families: An Australian snapshot." Australian Journal of Child and Family Health Nursing 16, no. 1 (July 2019): 16–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.33235/ajcfhn.16.1.16-23.

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Limited international research exists on reasons for transnational child care, or developmental consequences of separations and reunions on young Chinese children. This descriptive study portrays a sample of children from Chinese migrant families residing in western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, whose parents temporarily relinquished their care to grandparents in China. Data were collected via retrospective health record audits. The majority of parents were first-time parents and the majority of children were first-borns sent back to China during infancy. The average duration of transnational parent–child separation was 20 months. Results showed that male child subjects who experienced multiple transnational separations and reunions were more vulnerable to problems associated with disrupted attachment. This study links parental decision for transnational child care and feelings of disempowerment in their parenting role with patriarchal family values and expectations, and their own adverse early experiences. This study may assist child and family health (CFH) professionals identify, understand and help Chinese parents who may be considering transnational child care to avoid or ameliorate adverse consequences, or alternatively, to support parents following reunion to establish or re-establish attachment relationships with their child, and parent well to optimise their child’s development. Study findings increase the evidence base on reasons for transnational child care, and the complex range of developmental and psychological problems children and parents in this study faced following reunion.

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Merry, Lisa, and Nancy Edwards. "Transnationalism and parenthood in a new country." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 15, no. 4 (November 28, 2019): 294–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-02-2019-0023.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight gaps in the literature regarding transnational ties, the experience of raising and caring for children in a new (high-income) country and well-being, and to propose a program of research to address these gaps. Design/methodology/approach A general review of the literature on international migration, transnationalism and parenthood was conducted. A program of research and its objectives are then described. Findings To address research gaps, the proposed program of research aims to: develop approaches and tools to examine and measure the transnational experiences of migrant families; better understand migrants’ transnational obligations, resources and movements and their impact on parenthood and the health and well-being of families; assess whether existing health and social care and services for migrant families with children consider the transnational contexts and experiences of families; and determine how health and social care and services for migrant families with children may be adapted or developed to address transnational challenges and enhance transnational resources for families. Originality/value The proposed program of research offers a new approach, transnationalism, for producing knowledge toward better understanding the health and optimizing the care of migrant families in the context of raising and caring for children in a new country. It also contributes to the agenda setting regarding the approach and priority areas for research in migrant health.

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Maziyya, Rizqia Nuur. "THE PORTRAYAL OF A KOREAN ADOPTEE’S EXPERIENCE IN NICOLE CHUNG’S ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW: A MEMOIR OF ADOPTION." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 8, no. 1 (April 26, 2021): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v8i1.65481.

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Transnational adoption has become one of the factors of transnational migration to Western countries, including America. Transnational adoption can be viewed from at least two perspectives, South Korea as the origin country and America as the targeted country. From the birth country, transnational adoption becomes a way to help the children from poverty, have a better future, and contribute to the birth country when they return. From the adoption-targeted country, this adoption is a humanitarian way to save the children from poverty, primitive way of life, and God’s blessing. One of the countries which regularly “send” the children to Western countries is South Korea. The children become Korean adoptees and mostly living in white American neighborhoods. Living with white Americans has shaped the Korean adoptees’ behavior and way of thinking same as Americans. Korean adoptees face various problems, starting from adjusting themselves in new environment, finding their cultural roots and identity, and struggling to find their biological parents. This study employed Phinnes’ ethnic identity development to make sense of the experience of a Korean adoptee called Nicole Chung in her memoir, All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir of Adoption. Through the discussion, it can be understood how transnational adoption programs become national agenda and big business field since it is not expensive to have children from other countries. There is also an assumption that the children will have better and happier life when they are taken to America and other western countries. However, throughout their life as adopted children in America, the children also find difficulties, especially in finding their identity.

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Compton-Lilly, Catherine, Jieun Kim, Erin Quast, Sarah Tran, and Stephanie Shedrow. "The Emergence of transnational awareness among children in immigrant families." Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 19, no. 1 (February 7, 2019): 3–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468798417696342.

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In the past, physical barriers such as geography and distance limited global communication. In this paper, we explore how young children in immigrant families engage in transnational literacy practices. Specifically, we explore the transnational funds of knowledge that result from those experiences. This three-year longitudinal collective case study involves ten children from immigrant families who have come to the United States from around the world. The students entered the study in four-year-old kindergarten, grade 1 or grade 2. Each year, we collected observations, spoken data and student-created artefacts (e.g. writing samples, maps, photographs). Data sources were designed to highlight the various spaces that the immigrant families occupy or have occupied over time (i.e. home/neighbourhood/ school; native country/country of residence). Our reading and rereading of coded data across the sample led us to focus on families’ digital transnational practices and children’s transnational awareness. We argue that these funds of knowledge should be recognized in classrooms and schools and that they have the potential to contribute to the nurturing of cosmopolitan perspectives for all children.

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Nosek-Kozłowska, Katarzyna. "Transnational families as seen thought the prism of the experiences of children growing up in them." Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio 45, no. 1 (March 26, 2021): 125–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.34766/fetr.v45i1.694.

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Economic migrations are a phenomenon that extends to many Polish families, causing changes in their structure and functioning. The effects of migration that affect the lives of children and young people brought up in transnational families seem to be particularly important. Children from transnational families have specific family experiences because they are related to the economic migration of one of the parents, which is associated with his longer absence. The motives for the trip, time of separation, and everyday life in each transnational family are different, therefore children from these families have various life experiences and create images of family life in various ways.

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Cosse, Isabella. "“Children of the Revolution”." Radical History Review 2020, no. 136 (January 1, 2020): 198–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-7857368.

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Abstract This interview of Gregory Randall offers a lens onto a transnational life experience, including that of international refugees in Cuba. Randall was born in New York in 1960. He spent his early childhood in Mexico and arrived in Cuba in 1970, where he remained until the 1980s. In this interview, Randall reflects on Cuban policies toward women, homosexuality, and youth. He also analyzes his own family’s experience, characterized by a strong commitment to reflecting the Cuban Revolution in its own social relations and its ways of living and loving. The interview provides a unique perspective on these challenges and on Cuban history, shaped by Randall’s particular position in that historical process. Unmoored from national frameworks, his subjectivity is anchored in a transnational Left sensibility. He belongs to a generation of children of the revolution, part of Socialist Cuba as children and teenagers, and belonging to Left and internationalist families.

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Matei, Aniela, and Cristina Stroe. "Addressing Risk Situations through Measures Designed to Prevent and Combat Social Exclusion of Romanian Children from Transnational Families." Postmodern Openings 13, no. 3 (August 8, 2022): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/po/13.3/477.

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The phenomenon of transnational families is a topical issue on the European Union's family policy agenda, especially in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Europe 2020 Strategy. Romania, not only as a member state of the European Union, but also as a country directly affected by the scale of this phenomenon, must include in the public family policy the issue of transnational families and provide solutions for these families. Starting from the identification of the risk factors faced by children whose parents are working abroad, the article proposes a critical analysis of existing programs and measures in national legislation aimed at preventing and combating the social exclusion of Romanian children from transnational families. The results of the SWOT analysis carried out indicate a number of shortcomings in covering the risk situations of these vulnerable children, the access to education and a good start in the life of these children being quite affected. The obtained results have implications at the level of decision-makers, helping to improve the efficiency of measures and programs for the left behind children and transnational Romanian families.

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Gedvilaitė-Kordušienė, Margarita. "Norms and Care Relationships in Transnational Families: The Case of Elderly Parents Left Behind in Lithuania." Baltic Journal of European Studies 5, no. 2 (October 1, 2015): 90–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2015-0015.

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AbstractIn the context of high migration rates and limited formal care support for the elderly the paper deals with normative expectations and actual flows of support in Lithuanian transnational families. The study is based on a representative survey of elderly parents who have at least one migrant child (N=305). The data analysis revealed predominance of familistic attitudes towards filial responsibilities in transnational families. We did not find any significant differences in filial expectations between the two types of transnational families (elderly parents having only migrant children and those with both migrant and non-migrant children). High expectations of elderly parents are not being met in regards to face-to-face and virtual contacts with migrant adult children. The differences in provided/ received emotional support between migrant and non-migrant children were insignificant. However, the data revealed significant differences in provided/received financial support between migrant and non-migrant children.

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Gupta, Pallavi. "Transnational Human Trafficking." International Journal of Political Activism and Engagement 6, no. 2 (April 2019): 30–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijpae.2019040103.

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Human trafficking is a pernicious new variation on the ancient theme of slavery and trading in human flesh. It is considered a serious organised crime against humanity, reduces their sense of worth and punctures their ego and sense of dignity. Human trafficking is a transnational crime, a global problem that targets vulnerable individuals and affects every country. Its expansion depends on there being source countries with people demanding better economic living conditions, and destination countries with people or industries demanding cheap labour or cheap prostitution to enlarge their profits. The Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children by United Nations marks the international community's cumulative efforts to deal with this transnational organised crime. The Trafficking Protocol was entered into force on 2003. It has been signed by 117 countries and ratified by 159 parties. This article focuses on the ambiguity of definition of human trafficking given by UNO protocol.

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Alkan, Halit. "A Transnational Approach to Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"." International Journal of Social, Political and Economic Research 7, no. 3 (September 3, 2020): 601–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.46291/ijospervol7iss3pp601-607.

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Colonialism and post-colonialism have led to the development of transnationalism that is the interconnectivity between people and the economic and social significance of boundaries among nation states. When transnational approach is applied to Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981), it allows researchers to analyse how transnationalism impacts on gender, class, culture and race both in host and home countries. The traditional cultural heritage of India and British imperialism’s impact on Indian society are told through dual identities of the narrator Saleem Sinai who has double parents. Saleem’s grandfather, Aadam Aziz, a Western-trained physician, scorns his wife Naseem who could not notice the difference between mercurochrome and blood stains. As a traditional Indian wife Naseem’s response to the immoral sexual desires of her husband who has adopted the Western culture is a reaction to British cultural environment in India. Saleem’s mother Amina’s cultural conflict caused by colonialism is emphasized because she has to carry on her traditional culture-specific daily habits in her new house bought from a colonialist without changing the order established by Methwold. Despite gaining their independence, Indians cannot get rid of the impact of British colonialism. In terms of transnationalism, Indians are considered as undeveloped, ignorant and wild by British.

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Reisenauer, Eveline. "The Socialisation of Migrant Children in Transnational Settings." Czech Sociological Review 58, no. 1 (March 8, 2022): 7–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/csr.2022.012.

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Gangopadhyay, Jagriti. "Growing Old in a Transnational Setting: Investigating Perceptions of Ageing and Changing Filial Ties Among Older Indians in Saskatoon." Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 36, no. 2 (April 28, 2021): 169–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10823-021-09428-w.

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AbstractNumerous studies have examined the experience of growing old in a transnational context among Indians. However, in most of these studies, the older adults had immigrated as senior citizens to be with their adult children. Indians who have grown old in transnational settings have not been examined in detail in the gerontological scholarship. Adopting a cross-cultural lens, the present study focusses on perceptions of ageing among older Indians who have grown old in the city of Saskatoon. The study demonstrates how these older Indians refute the Successful Ageing model and accept their physical weaknesses in their course of ageing. Additionally, the study also examines how caregiving arrangements and intergenerational relationships are shaped among these older Indians and their adult children, in a transnational city, such as Saskatoon. Finally, the study highlights how later life gender roles are constructed in a transnational backdrop.

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Harper, Scott E., and Alan M. Martin. "Transnational Migratory Labor and Filipino Fathers." Journal of Family Issues 34, no. 2 (October 25, 2012): 270–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x12462364.

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Transnational migratory labor remains a primary method many Filipinos use in an effort to gain financial security for their families. Based on data collected from an urban Southern Visayan province during the summer of 2007, this study examined a sample of 116 OFW (Overseas Filipino Workers) families and a sample of 99 traditional two-parent households. Comparative analyses revealed that mothers from OFW families demonstrated lower levels of warmth when compared with mothers from two-parent homes. Children from OFW families were reported to demonstrate greater internalizing and externalizing problems when compared with children from homes in which both parents lived in the home. Subsequent regression analyses showed that fathers who worked abroad may contribute to mother behaviors and child outcomes in certain direct and indirect paths.

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Madianou, Mirca, and Daniel Miller. "Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children." New Media & Society 13, no. 3 (March 23, 2011): 457–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444810393903.

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The Philippines is an intensely migrant society with an annual migration of one million people, leading to over a tenth of the population working abroad. Many of these emigrants are mothers who often have children left behind. Family separation is now recognized as one of the social costs of migration affecting the global south. Relationships within such transnational families depend on long-distance communication and there is an increasing optimism among Filipino government agencies and telecommunications companies about the consequences of mobile phones for transnational families. This article draws on comparative research with UK-based Filipina migrants — mainly domestic workers and nurses — and their left-behind children in the Philippines. Our methodology allowed us to directly compare the experience of mothers and their children. The article concludes that while mothers feel empowered that the phone has allowed them to partially reconstruct their role as parents, their children are significantly more ambivalent about the consequences of transnational communication.

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Pandya, Jessica Zacher, Kathleah Consul Pagdilao, Aeloch Enok Kim, and Elizabeth Marquez. "Transnational Children Orchestrating Competing Voices in Multimodal, Digital Autobiographies." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 117, no. 7 (July 2015): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811511700707.

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Background/Context Prior research on multimodal, digital composition has highlighted the need for educators to bring such practices into classrooms, yet little research has been done to show what kinds of products children create and what those products can tell us as researchers about how children articulate their life experiences. We draw on recent theorizations of transnationalism in relation to immigrant children's school experiences, and Bakhtinian perspectives on language and ideology, to frame our analysis of the identity work that transnational and immigrant children undertook in the multimodal, digital composition projects we analyze. Purpose/Objective We analyzed 18 digital videos made by transnational children aged 8–10, asking what the key features of their narratives told us about what they found important in their lives, what voices were orchestrated in the composition of those narratives, and what voices were omitted. We also asked what students’ narratives told us about who they were and wanted to be, as immigrants or children of immigrants. Finally, we asked what these features and omissions suggested about perspectives on their immigration experiences and current lives. Research Design These data come from an ongoing, design-based research project. Qualitative methods were employed, including: interviews with and surveys of children and teachers at various stages of the video production process; collection of children's written work; collection of children's videos; and the writing of field notes and analytic memos. Conclusions/Recommendations Asking children to write about themselves for teachers, peers, and parents meant asking them to orchestrate multiple voices into potentially contradiction-ridden, yet coherent stories. Our work so far suggests that, at the least, we should expect children to try out new identities, and seek new ways of orchestrating the voices in their lives into a coherent whole. We caution researchers and teachers who work with immigrant youth not to assume that immigration will necessarily be a pivotal moment, or even a central or important moment, to children. We also caution that children may not feel that their school is a safe place to talk about such issues; offering the space is all we can do. The kinds of composition we have described exceed the narrative writing and speaking and listening demands of the Common Core State Standards. Teachers should be aware of the ways multimodal, digital composition can help meet their immigrant students’ self-authoring needs and surpass the demands of the new standards. Finally, to connect with others, to become more aware of one's place(s) in an increasingly globalized world, and to orchestrate competing voices—these are the potentials for multimodal, digital composition with immigrant youth to which we continue to aspire.

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Candel, Sandra L. "Yo Resisto, Tú Resistes, Todos Resistimos: Modes of Resistance Displayed by U.S.-Born Children of Deported Parents on the Mexico/U.S. Border." Education Sciences 9, no. 2 (June 18, 2019): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci9020140.

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Over 600,000 U.S.-born children are living in Mexico after being forced to leave with their parents after a deportation. Although these children possess transnational funds of knowledge, these go unrecognized by their Mexican teachers, who mostly view transnational students from a deficit perspective. This qualitative study included three transnational students aged 12–17 attending schools in northern Mexico due to parental deportation and used interviews, testimonios and thematic analysis to document their educational experiences and to determine their coping mechanisms and modes of resistance. By doing so, this study intended to highlight the ways in which participants enacted agency. The research questions guiding this study were: How are the educational experiences of transnational youth shaped by parental deportation? What tools do they use to cope? and, how does transnational youth enact transformative and other types of resistance? Based on theories of resistance and the Coyolxayhqui Imperative theory, this research found that the major obstacle transnational students face is the difference in educational systems and teaching practices and lack of academic Spanish proficiency. Deportation posed the added burden of stigmatization and exclusion. Family support was the greatest coping mechanism identified by participants, followed by friendships formed in Mexico, especially with other transnational students, as well as being resilient and purposeful in their pursuit of an education. Participants in this study displayed self-defeating, transformative, and resilient resistance. All people and place names are pseudonyms.

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Lyzhenkov, Alexey L. "osce vs Transnational Threats." Security and Human Rights 26, no. 2-4 (December 7, 2015): 326–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18750230-02602013.

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Transnational threats, such as terrorism, illegal trafficking, organized crime, including cyber-crime, remain among the most significant threats to peace, security and stability worldwide and to the osce participating States. Such threats undermine the social and economic development of people who live in the osce region, their fundamental freedoms, their safety, stability and enjoyment of human rights. Are there any tools to address these threats in such a way that people in the osce region would feel secure and safe to fly, to enjoy meeting friends in cafes and restaurants, to attend masses and sporting events, to have usual human life without anxiety for their children, their families and friends, and for themselves? The author tries to answer this question, he provides an overview of the osce toolbox in this area and makes some suggestions on the way forward.

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Sethi, Bharati, Allison Williams, and Joyce L. S. Leung. "Caregiving Across International Borders: a Systematic Review of Literature on Transnational Carer-Employees." Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 37, no. 4 (December 2022): 427–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10823-022-09468-w.

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AbstractIn diaspora and transnational studies little is known about the experiences of transnational carer-employees (TCEs). TCEs provide unpaid/informal care across international borders to an adult family member, friend, or relative with disability and/or age-related needs, while also working in paid employment in the country of resettlement. The primary focus of this systematic review was to examine how cultural and historical elements of transnational caregiving influence the economic, social, and health/well-being of TCEs. This systematic review draws on quantitative and qualitative peer-reviewed literature on TCEs’ experiences from Canada, the USA, or Australia between 1997 and 2017. In all, 16 articles that fulfilled the search inclusion criteria were selected. The articles were analyzed using content and thematic analysis. The review highlighted that transnational caregiving is a multi-dimensional phenomenon. There is a reciprocal relationship between adult children providing care to their parents and parents helping their children resettle in their new home. The findings suggest that TCEs provide practical, financial, and emotional care to their families abroad. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive systematic review of the experiences of TCEs. Increasingly complex immigration experiences of transnational families require innovative policy responses from a transnational and intersectionality lens. Immigrants need support to maintain solid transnational networks and simultaneously adapt to the country of resettlement. Employers can use the findings to support TCEs in balancing unpaid care across vast geographical distances while sustaining their economic and social well-being.

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Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar. "The Gender Paradox in the Transnational Families of Filipino Migrant Women." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 14, no. 3 (September 2005): 243–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/011719680501400301.

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This article examines the division of labor in the transnational families of migrant mothers from the Philippines using interviews with young adult children and guardians in 30 mother-away transnational families. It looks closely at the work of fathers, migrant mothers, eldest daughters, and extended kin to show that caring practices in the transnational families of migrant women perpetuate conventional gender norms of the family. As it specifically shows that the work of women both at home and abroad maintains transnational migrant families, this article establishes that women's migration has not led to a more egalitarian division of labor in the family.

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Warria, Ajwangâ€™. "Stateless Transnational Migrant Children in South Africa: Implications and Opportunities for Social Work Intervention." African Human Mobility Review 6, no. 2 (April 23, 2021): 6–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.14426/ahmr.v6i2.795.

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Migrant children who are vulnerable to statelessness are a growing at-risk population worldwide, and in South Africa. Migrant children often travel unaccompanied or become separated from their families during the journey, thus increasing their vulnerability. These children are often denied their rights in countries of transit and resettlement and might even be detained due to lack of documentation. They are subject to high levels of violence and status-exclusion within the migratory process. This paper considers statelessness in migrant children in South Africa, and undertakes a review of the literature to understand this phenomenon. The results show that a considerable number of migrant children in South Africa are at risk of statelessness. While all children may have roots that can be traced, situations and technicalities arise within the migration and registration framework that result either in children becoming stateless or at risk of becoming such. These childrenâ€™s childhoods fall through the gaps as they lack a sense of belonging. They also have limited rights and none of the protection that goes with being recognized as nationals. Social workers are able to play a significant role in assessing and determining if migrant children are either stateless or at risk of becoming stateless and offer appropriate intervention to help them realize their rights, potential and contributions.

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Chung, Soojin. "Mother of Transracial Adoption: Pearl Buck's Special Needs Adoption and American Self-criticism." Studies in World Christianity 25, no. 3 (December 2019): 345–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2019.0271.

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In 1949, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck founded Welcome House, the first transracial and transnational adoption agency in the country, marking the beginning of the transnational adoption of mixed-race ‘Amerasian’ children. Contrary to the prevailing understanding that her humanitarian advocacy was a political act that promoted American global hegemony during the Cold War period, this article argues that her humanitarian work was motivated primarily by three forces: (1) her sense of American political and moral responsibility, (2) her desire for personal connection and motherhood, and (3) her mission of global friendship and unity. Buck actively fought racism in America, advocating the adoption of mixed-race Asian children and children with disabilities. Unlike evangelical agencies that catered to a conservative Christian audience, Pearl Buck normalised the notion of transracial adoption across America through her potent prose. This study examines her work in the context of the rise of Protestant liberalism, accentuating her role as the pioneer of the transracial and transnational adoption of Amerasian children and demonstrating that her ideology was congruent with her lifetime motto of human solidarity and anti-racism.

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Zhang, Huilan, and Chunkao Deng. "The Impact of Parent–Child Attachment on School Adjustment in Left-behind Children Due to Transnational Parenting: The Mediating Role of Peer Relationships." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 12 (June 7, 2022): 6989. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19126989.

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In China’s eastern coastal areas, the transnational parenting of left-behind children creates a distinct form of left-behind child. Previous research has indicated that children who have been left behind have a low degree of school adjustment. The major purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of parent–child attachment on school adjustment in children left behind by migrant parents, as well as the mediating role of peer relationships in this process. The parent–child attachment section of the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA), the Adaptation subscale of the Adolescent Mental Health Quality Questionnaire—Chinese Version (AMHQQ-C), and the Student Peer Relationship Scale (SPRC) were used to survey 405 left-behind children in grades 3–6 of seven elementary schools in the hometowns of overseas Chinese parents from Zhejiang Province. It was discovered that, compared to non-left-behind children, left-behind children showed lower levels of parent–child attachment and school adjustment, while peer relationships appeared polarized. In addition, parent–child attachment and peer relationships considerably predicted the level of school adjustment in children left behind due to transnational parenting. More importantly, the mediation analysis revealed a partial mediating effect of peer relationships on the linkages between parent–child attachment and school adjustment among children who were left behind in transnational foster care.

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Antia, Khatia, Johannes Boucsein, Andreas Deckert, Peter Dambach, Justina Račaitė, Genė Šurkienė, Thomas Jaenisch, Olaf Horstick, and Volker Winkler. "Effects of International Labour Migration on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Left-Behind Children: A Systematic Literature Review." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 12 (June 17, 2020): 4335. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124335.

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Labour migration is a challenge for the globalised world due to its long-term effects such as the formation of transnational families. These families, where family members of migrant workers are “left-behind”, are becoming a common phenomenon in many low- and middle-income countries. Our systematic literature review investigated the effects of international parental labour migration on the mental health and well-being of left-behind children. Following the PRISMA guidelines, we performed searches in PubMed, PsychINFO, Web of Science, Cochrane Library and Google Scholar, resulting in 30 finally included studies. We found that mental health and well-being outcomes of left-behind children differed across and sometimes even within regions. However, only studies conducted in the Americas and South Asia observed purely negative effects. Overall, left-behind children show abnormal Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire scores and report higher levels of depression and loneliness than children who do not live in transnational families. Evidence from the studies suggests that gender of the migrant parent, culture and other transnational family characteristics contribute to the well-being and mental health of left-behind children. Further research utilising longitudinal data is needed to better understand the complex and lasting effects on left-behind children.

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Hess, Donabelle C., and Alla Skomorovsky. "Children from military families: looking through a transnational lens." Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health 5, S2 (November 1, 2019): 136–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jmvfh.2019-0013.

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Wolf, Diane L. "Family Secrets: Transnational Struggles among Children of Filipino Immigrants." Sociological Perspectives 40, no. 3 (September 1997): 457–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1389452.

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In comparative studies of language proficiency and grades, Filipino second generation youth look relatively successful and assimilated, echoing what we know about their parents: post-1965 Filipino immigrants are predominantly middle-class, college-educated, English-speaking professionals who have integrated easily into U.S. society. Based on fieldwork in two California sites, this paper examines some of the issues and problems confronting second generation Filipino youth. “The family” seems to offer an extremely magnetic and positive basis of Filipino identity for many children of immigrants, yet it is also a deep source of stress and alienation, which for some, has led to internal struggles and extreme despair as manifested by rates of depression and suicidal thoughts. More specifically, by focusing on the gap between family ideology and practices, this paper suggests that many Filipino second generation youth struggle with an emotional transnationalism which situates them between different and often conflicting generational and locational points of reference.

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Barn, Ravinder. "Somebody's children: the politics of transracial and transnational adoption." Ethnic and Racial Studies 37, no. 5 (December 3, 2013): 857–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2013.847201.

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Fonseca, Claudia. "Transnational influences in the social production of adoptable children." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 26, no. 3/4 (March 2006): 154–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443330610657205.

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Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. "Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption." Hispanic American Historical Review 93, no. 2 (May 1, 2013): 336–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2077540.

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Grossman, J. L. "Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption." Journal of American History 100, no. 1 (June 1, 2013): 255–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jat067.

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Borjian, Ali, Luz María Muñoz de Cote, Sylvia van Dijk, and Patricia Houde. "Transnational Children in Mexico: Context of Migration and Adaptation." Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education 10, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 42–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15595692.2015.1084920.

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Jacobson, Heather. "Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 42, no. 6 (October 28, 2013): 829–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094306113506873c.

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Romero, Mary. "Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 35, no. 5 (September 2006): 480–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009430610603500518.

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Kwon, Jungmin. "The Circulation of Care in Multilingual and Transnational Children." Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice 69, no. 1 (July 2, 2020): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2381336920937277.

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Employing a multisited ethnographic stance, this study examined second-generation Korean immigrant children who sustain linkages with their parental homelands to better understand how transnationalism shapes their language and literacy practices by documenting their experiences in and across multiple spaces in North Carolina, the United States, and Seoul, South Korea. Findings suggest that the circulation of care, or the multidirectional and reciprocal exchange of support and care, functioned at the center of the children’s multilingual and transnational lives. The children actively engaged in language and literacy interactions through which they forged and extended meaningful ties with their parental homelands and strengthened intergenerational relationships. This study challenges the binary and fixed notions of home/host countries and highlights the need for longitudinal, multisited research on immigrant children’s transnational journeys with careful attention to the mobility of their language and literacy across generations and countries.

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Gardner, Katy. "Transnational Migration and the Study of Children: An Introduction." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 38, no. 6 (July 2012): 889–912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2012.677170.

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Punch, Samantha. "Studying Transnational Children: A Multi-Sited, Longitudinal, Ethnographic Approach." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 38, no. 6 (July 2012): 1007–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2012.677181.

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Mazzucato, Valentina, and Victor Cebotari. "Psychological Well-being of Ghanaian Children in Transnational Families." Population, Space and Place 23, no. 3 (January 4, 2016): e2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp.2004.

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Hyun, Jaehwan. "In the Name of Human Adaptation: Japanese American “Hybrid Children” and Racial Anthropology in Postwar Japan." Perspectives on Science 30, no. 1 (January 2022): 167–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00406.

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Abstract By focusing on the emergence and integration of “hybrid children” (konketsuji) anthropology into the Human Adaptability section of the International Biological Program (HA-IBP) in Japan during the 1950s and 1970s, this paper presents how transnational dynamics and mechanisms played out in shaping and maintaining the racist aspects while simultaneously allowed them to be included in the HA-IBP framework. It argues that Japanese anthropologists operated a double play between their national and transnational spaces, that is, they attenuated racist aspects of their research in their international activities while authenticating race in their national work. This paper will conclude with reflections on the transnational nationalism of konketsuji anthropology.

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Uysal, Ahmet. "Londra’daki Türkçe konuşan topluluğa ait çocukların ulusaşırı mekanlarda duygusal coğrafyaları." Göç Dergisi 3, no. 1 (March 22, 2016): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/gd.v3i1.557.

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Son yıllarda çocuk çalışmalarındaki artışla beraber çocuk coğrafyalarına da ilgi artmıştır. Çocuk coğrafyaları, çocuk ve çocukluk kavramına bakışı çeşitlendiren disiplinlerarası bir yaklaşıma sahip olmasının yanında beşeri coğrafya içindeki farklı paradigmaların izini taşır. Bir diğer altı çizilmesi gereken husus ise, iletişim ve ulaşımdaki gelişmelere bağlı olarak ‘hareketlilik’in artması göç çalışmalarına da yansımıştır. Ulusaşırı toplumsal alanlar ya da ulusaşırı mekanlar gibi kavramlar vasıtasıyla bireysel ve toplumsal unsurların sınırları aştığına dair bir vurgu vardır ve özellikle göçmen çocukları bu yeni olgunun en başat unsurudur. Bu bağlamda, bu çalışmanın amacı ulusaşırı mekanlar ve Londra’daki Türk çocuklar arasındaki ilişkinin altını çizmektir. Bir diğer amaç ise, bir çok yer ile bağı olan bu çocukların o yerlere dair duygusal coğrafyalarını bizzat onların sesinden duyma çabasıdır.ENGLISH ABSTRACTEmotional geographies of Turkish children in transnational spaces in London In recent years, the study of children geographies has attracted interest thanks to child studies. Children geographies have an interdisciplinary approach, which diversifies perspectives on the concepts of child and childhood. It also bears traces of different paradigms within the study of human geographies. Besides, the rise of mobility, owing to new developments in communication and transportation, has influenced migration studies. Transnational social fields and transnational spaces have come to refer to a phenomenon in which social and, to a great extent, individual elements transcends borders whose influence upon migration has diminished with time. Migrant children constitute the principal element of this phenomenon. In this context, the aim of this paper is to point out the relationship between the concept of transnational spaces and children of the Turkish speaking community in London. It also aims to come to know emotional geographies of children, allowing them to speak for themselves. In this sense, it is used the semi-structured interview and participant observastion to represent the emotional geographies of Turkish children who has diverse and mixed emotion about given places.

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Adem, Saleh Seid. "Maternal absence and transnational female labour migration; implications for the left-behind child." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 17, no. 3 (July 13, 2021): 315–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-01-2020-0003.

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Purpose As migration of family members becomes an omnipresent phenomenon, the conventional norm of having a family and living under the same roof together is far from normal for many households. It produces transnational practices and multisite lifestyle configurations. This study aims to explore the implication of maternal absence as a result of transnational labour migration on the left-behind child in the context of transnational labour migration from Ethiopia. Design/methodology/approach It focusses on the perspective of those who stayed behind. The ethnographic fieldwork was carried out in two rural villages – Bulebullo and Bokekesa – of Worebabbo district in Northern Ethiopia. It involved in-depth interviews with children and their caregivers supported by interviews and group discussions with members of the community, local officials and traditional leaders. Findings Transnational mothering and other mothering emerge as new practices of mothering in the rural villages due to maternal absence have interrelated implications and meanings for the left-behind child. However, the rigidity of sending societies’ norms related to mothering and gendered labour dynamics exacerbated the negative implications of maternal absence on left-behind children. The absence of the fathers’ effort to redefine mothering or fathering by providing childcare is part of the equation in the relationship between maternal absence and left-behind children. Originality/value The findings of this study refute the notion that labels mother’s out-migration as “abandoning children”, “disrupting families” and “acts of selfishness”.

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