Childhood and Parenting in Transnational Settings

Description

This book describes children and youth on the one hand and parents on the other within the newly configured worlds of transnational families. Focus is put on children born abroad, brought up abroad, studying abroad, in vulnerable situations, and/or subject of trafficking. The book also provides insight into the delicate relationships that arise with parents, such as migrant parents who are parenting from a distance, elderly parents supporting migrant adult children, fathers left behind by migration, and Eastern-European parents in Nordic countries. It also touches upon life strategies developed in response to migration situations, such as the transfer of care, transnational (virtual) communication, common visits (to and from), and the co-presence of family members in each other’s (distant) lives. As such this book provides a wealth of information for researchers, policy makers and all those working in the field of migration and with migrants. The chapter 'Afterword: Gender Practices in Transnational Families' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Overview: Transnational Times in Global Spaces – Childhood and Parenting in the Age of Movement (Áron Telegdi-Csetri)....Pages 1-8 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 Rethinking Children’s Place(s) in Transnational Families: Mobile Childhoods in Filipino International Migration (Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot)....Pages 11-24 Transnational Migrant Entrepreneurs’ Childcare Practices from the Carers’ Perspective: Chinese Children in Hungarian Homes (Nóra Kovács)....Pages 25-42 Are Romanian Children Left behind a Vulnerable Group to Human Trafficking? (Rafaela H. Pascoal, Adina N. E. Schwartz)....Pages 43-61 “Our Westerner”: The Role of Romanian-naturalized Youth in Reconfiguring Moldavian Transnational Families (Iulia-Elena Hossu)....Pages 63-82 Who Cares for the Children and the Elderly? Gender and Transnational Families (Yu-Kang Fan, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas)....Pages 83-99 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 Daddy’s Dividends: Modernization of Fatherhood in Transnational Families of Ukrainian Migrant Women (Alissa V. Tolstokorova)....Pages 103-118 Parenting from a Distance: The Shifting Topology of Care in the Net Era (Carlotta Monini)....Pages 119-136 Trajectories of Situated Transnational Parenting – Caregiving Arrangements of East European Labour Migrants in Sweden (Charlotte Melander, Oksana Shmulyar Green)....Pages 137-154 Older Parents in Romania as a Resource for their Migrant Adult Children (Mihaela Hărăguș, Ionuț Földes, Veronica Savu)....Pages 155-173 Zero Generation Grandparents Caring for Their Grandchildren in Switzerland. The Diversity of Transnational Care Arrangements among EU and Non-EU Migrant Families (Malika Wyss, Mihaela Nedelcu)....Pages 175-190 Afterword: Gender Practices in Transnational Families (Viorela Ducu)....Pages 191-204