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Parenting from afar and the reconfiguration of family across distance
1 online resource (xxii, 365 pages) : illustrations
An increasing number of families around the world are now living apart from one another, subsequently causing the defining and redefining of their relationships, roles within the family unit, and how to effectively maintain a sense of familial cohesion through distance. Edited by Maria Rosario T. de Guzman, Jill Brown, and Carolyn Pope Edwards, Parenting From Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance uniquely highlights how families - both in times of crisis and within normative cultural practices - organize and configure themselves and their parentingthrough physical separation. In this volume, readers are given a unique look into the lives of families around the world that are affected by separation due to a wide range of circumstances including economic migration, fosterage, divorce, military deployment, education, and orphanhood. Contributingauthors from the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, education, and geography all delve deep into the daily realities of these families and share insight on why they live apart from one another, how families are redefined across long distances, and the impact absence has on variousmembers within the unit. An especially timely volume, Parenting From Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance offers readers an important understanding and examination of family life in response to social change and shifts in the caregiving context.
SECTION I. Economic Migration and Family Dispersal -- Scattering seeds in las orquideas : the role of kin networks in ecuadorian parental emigration / Heather Rae-Espinoza -- Migration and "skipped generation" households in Thailand / Laura Yakas -- Fictive kinships and the remaking of family life in the context of paid domestic work : the case of Philippine yayas / Minerva D. Tuliao -- Changing country, changing gender roles : migration to norway and transformation of gender roles among Polish families / Gunn Vedøy -- Parental migration and well-being of left-behind children from a comparative perspective / Yao Lu -- SECTION II. Sociopolitical Crises and Family Separation -- Making of "orphans" : how the "orphan rescue" movement is transforming family and jeopardizing child well-being in Uganda / Kristen E. Cheney -- Imagined and occasional co-presence in open adoption : how adoptive parents mediate birth connections / Mandi MacDonald -- Untold transnational family life on the Sonora-Arizona border / Ana A. Lucero-Liu -- Experience of families separated by military deployment / Patricia Lester -- SECTION III. Personal Crises and Family Separation -- Children as providers and recipients of support : redefining family among child-headed households in Namibia / Jesse Beatson -- Parenting from prison : the reality and experience of distance / Jonathon J. Beckmeyer -- Distance mothering : the case of nonresidential mothers / Michelle Bemiller -- SECTION IV. Family Separation as a Normative Cultural Practice and in Pursuit of Education -- Raising another's child : gifting, communicating, and persevering in northern Namibia / Jill Brown -- Satellite babies : costs and benefits of culturally driven parent-infant separations in North American immigrant families / Leslie K. Wang -- Going the distance: transnational educational migrant families in Korea / Jeehun Kim -- Where should my child go to school? : parent and child considerations in binational families / Juan Sanchez Garcia.
edited by Maria Rosario T. de Guzman, Jill Brown, and Carolyn Pope Edwards.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]