Full Description
This book explores the phenomenon of familyhood across borders, examining the experience of translocal familyhood and the manner in which lifelines in and between countries are formed when individual family members spend long periods away from home. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it considers the emotions, social relations, materialities and discourses that occur within family lives between Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, Russia and Sweden. With attention to the ways in which gender, generation, class and geography create and reinforce inequalities, strengths and vulnerabilities within and between families, it combines ethnographic, descriptive work with shorter photography-based chapters in order to allow textual and visual methods to complement one another. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and anthropology with interests in migration, transnationalism and the sociology of the family.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Translocal Familyhood and Lifelines across Borders
Section I: Everyday Emotions
2 Overcoming the Burden of Distance: Emotions in the Family Lives of Estonian Men Working in Finland
3 Place Attachment and Translocal Ties: Adult Descendants of Polish Migrants in Sweden
Commentary on Chapters 2 and 3
Translocal Lifelines through the Lens of Emotion: Dealing with Distance and Connection
Section II: Gender and Inequalities
4 Negotiating Same-sex Family Space between Finland and Russia
5 From Estonia to Finland: Women's Stories of Inequality, Survival and Relatedness
Commentary on Chapters 4 and 5
Feeling Translocalism: Stretched and Connective Emotions through Time and Space
Section III: Materialities
6 Representing Translocal Taste Buds: An Exploration of Photography as a Method
7 Claiming Translocal Place among Romanian Roma Migrants in Helsinki: Infrastructures, Urban Encounters and Displacement
Commentary on Chapters 6 and 7
The World Constituted through Photos
Section IV: Family Values and Integration
8 Lines of Differentiation and Connection in Translocal Lithuanian Lives: Stories about the Norwegian Child Welfare Service
9 Integration, the Generation Gap and Continuity in Russian-speaking Translocal Families in Finland
Commentary on Chapters 8 and 9
Family Values and Integration Narrated, Negotiated and Politicised
Index
