Transformations of transnational care in times of the pandemic: spotlights and future prospects

Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 2925 - 2937

Published: May 24, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities in care between mobile and immobile populations. It highlighted the precarious situation of many migranticized individuals their families worldwide, but it also brought into public eye, providing opportunities for advances social science understanding policy reform. This Special Issue explores interplay transnational arrangements, cross-border movement mobility, production inequality post-COVID-19 world. collected articles provide a comprehensive picture from different countries fields, revealing three interrelated processes that reflect complex dynamics during pandemic: (1) interruption arrangements; (2) reorganization these (3) coping strategies to adapt (post)pandemic immobilizations, restrictions, modified patterns care. In sum, this issue aims contribute advancement benefit vulnerable

Language: Английский

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‘I Kiss the Screen, But It Is Not the Same’ — Grandparenting in Geographically Dispersed Families

Global Networks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 25(2)

Published: Feb. 26, 2025

ABSTRACT Taking the perspective of grandparents living in origin country, our article is innovative examining a range ties within social networks, not only transnational ones but also family in‐country with both close‐by and geographically dispersed relatives. We analyse focus group discussions Polish whose grandchildren live different locations. Thus, we are looking at as part interlocking personal networks spanning distances, including internal migration. By comparing grandparents’ interactions those who near far, advance understanding how distance impacts feelings closeness bonding between generations. This lens reveals varied communication practices contact patterns affect emotional wellbeing ageing (grand)parents origin. Although technology helps maintain contact, especially transnationally, it does offer multisensory experience—a limitation which becomes evident when compared in‐person childcare socialising.

Language: Английский

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Transnational children and the right to family life: lessons following the COVID-19 crisis

Citizenship Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 20

Published: March 27, 2025

Language: Английский

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On not ‘being there’: Making sense of the potent urge for physical proximity in transnational families at the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic

Global Networks, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 23(1), P. 45 - 58

Published: June 25, 2022

This paper investigates transnational families' experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and accompanying sudden unexpected travel restrictions. Our data consist written stories collected in April-June 2020 from migrants with ageing kin living another country. For many respondents, situation provoked an acutely felt urge for physical proximity their families. By analysing 'not being there', we seek to understand what exactly made 'be there' so forceful. Bringing into dialogue literature on families Jennifer Mason's recent theoretical work affinities, move focus caregiving practices potent connections between family members. We argue that this approach can open important avenues future research families-transnational or otherwise-because it sheds light multisensory often ineffable charges members serve connect them.

Language: Английский

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Understanding the secondary outcomes of international travel measures during the covid-19 pandemic: a scoping review of social impact evidence

Globalization and Health, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 20(1)

Published: Aug. 1, 2024

Assessment of the effective use international travel measures during COVID-19 pandemic has focused on public health goals, namely limiting virus introduction and onward transmission. However, risk-based approaches includes weighing goals against potential social, economic other secondary impacts. Advancing thus requires fuller understanding available evidence such

Language: Английский

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Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 50(5), P. 1157 - 1176

Published: Dec. 11, 2023

A 'transnational turn' in welfare regime theory has disrupted methodologically nationalist analyses of care regimes generating analytical frameworks that capture the interdependencies between and migration regimes. Those share a focus on for paid labour as vehicle connecting transnationally. In this paper, we highlight familial care-labour mobility an additional mechanism across borders. Drawing circulation framework, argue these informal global chains helps to bridge macro structural level approaches with more micro-level transnational family approach. We grandparent mobility, arguing while it is 'familial', 'informal', 'private' 'invisible', its dynamics lived experiences those entwined within it, are mediated at care-migration systems nexus. Through case-studies China Australia India UK, examine how nexus shaped by prevailing logic neoliberalism ensuing patterns stratification systems. conclude highlighting need ethics govern

Language: Английский

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‘I am afraid to fly there’: informal care in Polish migrants’ families immobilised by COVID-19

Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 3021 - 3040

Published: May 24, 2024

This paper discusses the COVID-19 pandemic as a new external challenge to transnational family life that can undermine care arrangements and intentions developed by families of Polish migrants following 2004 EU enlargement. The pandemic, associated lockdowns travel restrictions raise questions about assumed transnationalism, building upon earlier concerns taking for granted migrants' cross-national mobility. Based on focus group discussions with grandparents conducted in July 2020 March 2021, we analyse pandemic's impact intergenerational relations both geographically close distant kin. We point perceptions risks ethnicised stereotypes evolving time. While caused temporary mobility, it shows immobilising side "unsettling events"], consequences which, privileged migrants, will unfold time their parents' age require personal care.

Language: Английский

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“Covid has stopped us all”: the experiences of migrant care workers in formal care settings in Germany

Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 2999 - 3020

Published: May 23, 2024

This research examined how migrant care workers in eldercare institutions Germany were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on their personal experiences. The is theoretically grounded intersectionality and prisoner of love framework. Drawing 15 qualitative interviews with (MCWs) from Poland Bosnia–Herzegovina, main findings highlight that intersecting social positions play an important role stratifying experiences for MCWs. Migrant high skill levels job security stressed similarities to non-migrant colleagues day-to-day work during foregrounding shared professional self-image creating solidarity between all backgrounds. Strong workplace relationships, emphasising identity, adapting career plans ways mitigate negative effects pandemic. study's results emphasise need a more balanced portrayal pandemic's impact workers.

Language: Английский

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Aging Filipina migrants’ experiences of transnational end-of-life care and loss over time

Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 3064 - 3083

Published: May 23, 2024

This article addresses experiences of transnational end-of-life care among aging Filipina migrants before and during COVID-19. de Leon the emotional costs associated with loving losing kin from a distance both pandemic, drawing on their autobiographical account distant by proxy aunt's wake funeral. Blower-Nassiri highlights exacerbated fears anxieties around dying, illness, migrants, two life histories retired nurses who recalled moments loss being absent for events, such as funerals, pandemic. Together, provide an intimate portrait three migrants' loss. They further address limitations course framework in consideration how carries on, across generations through practices rituals that signal accrual over time.

Language: Английский

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Transformation of informal elder care practices and mobilities during the pandemic

Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 47(14), P. 2938 - 2957

Published: May 23, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that when formal care services closed down, informal burden was unequally transferred to women. Women across the world became part of "caregiver pools". Using textual archive material collected by Finnish Literature Society, we analyse transformation elder practices in Finland. We adopt a mobility and process perspective how transformed due social distancing measures restricted ageing individuals their family members' local translocal mobilities. find over 70-year-olds had adapt daily mobilities according risk assessment. Caregiving provided mostly female members replaced digital at distance, which reinforced existing inequalities care. argue simultaneously brought about both time–space compression what call expansion affected everyday

Language: Английский

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