Title Transnational displays of parenting and caring for elderly parents
Translation of Title Motinystės/ tėvystės ir pagyvenusių tėvų globos demonstravimas abipus sienų.
Authors Juozeliūnienė, Irena Emilija ; Martinkėnė, Gintė ; Budginaitė-Mačkinė, Irma
DOI 10.15388/OS.2020.7
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Is Part of Making Lithuanian families across borders.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2020, p. 127-154
Keywords [eng] transnational families ; cross-border displays ; elderly parents
Abstract [eng] This chapter is set up to incorporate Finch’s idea of ‘display’ to examine how migrant parents, adult migrant children, and close significant persons perform a set of actions to convey to each other and the society at large that these are family-doing activities. The authors sought to demonstrate that the concept of ‘display’ could be applied to analyze transnational practices of parenting and caring for elderly parents in a quantitative way. The chapter draws on the data from a quotabased survey (N = 304) of three types of transnational families: mother-away and father-away with under-aged children living in Lithuania and adult child-away with elderly parents needing care living in Lithuania. The study was carried out in August 2018 as part of the research project ‘Global Migration and Lithuanian Family: Family Practices, Circulation of Care, and the Return Strategies’.
Published Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2020
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