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Moralizing emotional remittances: transnational familyhood and translocal moral economy in the Philippines‘ ‘Little Italy’

August 21, 2015, 4:31 a.m., EVANGELINE O. KATIGBAK, Allgemein.

Abstract

In this article, I explain the intersections of morality and emotions in the (re)constitution of transnational familyhood and translocal moral economy. I use the case of the Philippines' ‘Little Italy’ to explore the translocal emotional geographies of sustaining transnational families through what I call ‘emotional remittances’, which indicate how emotions move across translocal social fields through remittances. I first probe the understandings of transnational familyhood in the Philippines and then move on to interrogate the translocal moral economy that influences the meanings of, and attitudes towards, emotional remittances. I first argue that the continuation of transnational familyhood implies the subscription to the translocal moral economy embedded in sending societies. Second, this translocal moral economy is underpinned by emotional constructs such as love, ingratitude and guilt, that (re)shape and are (re)shaped by transnational familyhood. The findings and analysis in this article contribute to further theorizations of the interrelations of emotion, remittances and transnational family formation.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2Fglob.12092

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Empowering or impeding return migration? ICT, mobile phones, and older migrants’ communications with home

August 21, 2015, 4:04 a.m., ALISTAIR HUNTER, Allgemein.

Abstract

In the last two decades, transnational social fields have been transformed by advances in information and communication technologies (ICT). Many scholars have noted the empowering effects of these technological advances for migrants. Drawing on the concept of return preparedness, it follows that ICT use should also empower prospective returnees, enabling them to be better informed and prepared for return. However, multi-sited ethnographic research with older North and West African men living in migrant worker hostels in France finds that ICT use – particularly mobile telephony –impedes return. In some instances, mobile phones serve to amplify the pressures on the men to provide financially for their stay-at-home relatives. In others, mobile phones reinforce attachments to France by facilitating networks of solidarity among hostel residents. Instead of returning definitively at retirement, many hostel residents choose a bi-residence strategy, dividing their time between France and countries of origin.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2Fglob.12091

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