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communicative care in transnational Salvadoran families
1 online resource (xxiii, 220 pages) : illustrations.
"Living together across borders: Separated Salvadoran families and the power of everyday conversation presents a multisited ethnography of communication in extended families living stretched between El Salvador and the United States. The book examines seemingly mundane conversational practices-such as sending greetings, negotiating remittances, and reminiscing together-that are central to family life across borders. It underscores the consequentiality of these linguistic practices by tracing how they are shaped by and re-shape gendered and generational norms of family care, as well as how they are tied to Salvadoran histories of migration, violence, and poverty, which are powerfully influenced by U.S. economic and foreign policy. The book demonstrates that these communicative practices bring inequities between global North and South into family life by continually reproducing distinctions between relatives in El Salvador and those living in the United States. At the same time, however, transnational families use cross-border communication to forge convivencia (living-together) at-a-distance. Although these relational moments of cross-border connection are fleeting, their impacts endure, laying the foundation for the ongoing material and economic provisioning necessary to family survival. Through cross-border conversations, families nurture intergenerational relations that sustain the family over the years despite ongoing separation"--
Cover -- Living Together Across Borders -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transcription Conventions -- About the Companion Website -- Prologue: Why I Wrote This Book -- Introduction: Communication and Care-​at-​a-​Distance -- Communicative Convivencia (Living-​Together) -- Navigating Family Separation through Communication -- Migration and Family Care in Rural El Salvador -- What Is Care? -- Care and Kinship across Borders -- Communicative Care -- Methods for Studying Cross-​Border Communication -- Organization of the Book
1 . Making Family Care Political: State-​Endorsed Migration Discourse in El Salvador -- Hermano Lejano ¡Bienvenido! (Distant Brother, Welcome!) -- Ustedes Son Embajadores Laborales (You Are Working Ambassadors) -- State-​Endorsed Migration Discourse -- Contrastive Migrant Personhood: Heroes or Dangerous Failures? -- The Heroic Migrant as Economic Provider -- Failed Migrants as Scapegoats in Transnational Moral Panics -- The Selfish Migrant: Family Disintegration as a National Threat -- Conclusion
2 . Transnational Care in Multigenerational Households: Asymmetrical Practices and Moral Meanings -- Quincean˜era -- Signifying and Enacting Obligations with Relational Grammars -- Care in Multigenerational Extended Households -- Envisioning Asymmetry and Reciprocity -- Communication Technologies and Affordances -- Contesting Asymmetries through Interwoven Conversations -- Conclusion -- 3 . "Les Mando Saludos": Sending Greetings, Envisioning Family, and Grappling with Inequality -- Communicative Emissaries -- How Greetings Matter -- Sending Greetings in Latin America
Mandar Saludos as a Genre of Communicative Care -- Envisioning Kin Care through Reference Patterns -- Learning to Send Greetings and Family Futures -- Resignifying and Reproducing Care Asymmetries -- Conclusion -- 4 Talking Remittances: The Conversational Temporalities of Intergenerational Care -- Consequential Conversational Temporalities -- Communicative Labor in Remittance Conversations -- A Birthday to Remember -- The Interactive Temporality of Requests -- Making Indirect Requests through Complaints -- Intensifying Complaints with Reported Speech -- Creating and Breaking Communicative Norms
Conclusion -- 5 Communicative Memory: Defying Institutional Forgetting through Remembering as Care -- ¿Se Acuerda Cuando . . . ? (Do You Remember When . . . ?) -- Institutional Forgetting and the Struggle for Memory -- Naming the Dead to Preserve Memoria Histórica -- Making Meaning in Día de los Difuntos Rituals -- Remembering Together across Borders -- Connecting Past and Present through Stance Alignment -- Motivations for Remembering -- Dialogic Convivencia and Imagined Togetherness -- The Future of the Past -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Social Change through Communicative Care -- A Miracle?
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Oxford studies in the anthropology of language