Description
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 parenting through 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. Contributing authors 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 various members 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.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Thomas WeisnerAcknowledgmentsAbout the EditorsContributorsIntroductionMaria Rosario T. de Guzman, Jill Brown, and Carolyn Pope EdwardsSection 1: Economic Migration and Family Dispersal1. Scattering Seeds in Las Orquideas: The Role of Kin Networks in Ecuadorian Parental EmigrationHeather Rae-Espinoza2. Migration and "Skipped Generation" Households in ThailandBerit Ingersoll-Dayton, Sureeporn Punpuing, Kanchana Tangchonlatip, & Laura Yakas3. Fictive Kinships and the Re-Making of Family Life in the Context of Paid Domestic Work: The Case of Philippine YayasMaria Rosario T. de Guzman, Minerva D. Tuliao, & Aileen S. Garcia4. Changing Country, Changing Gender Roles: Migration to Norway and the Transformation of Gender Roles Among Polish FamiliesNatasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, Magdalena Zadkowska, Brita Gjerstad, Kuba Krys, Anna Kwiatkowska, Gunhild Odden, Oleksandr Ryndyk, Justyna Swidrak, & Gunn Vedøy5. Parental Migration and Well-being of Left-Behind Children from a Comparative PerspectiveYao LuSection 2: Family Separation in the Context of Social and Political Crises6. The Making of 'Orphans': How the 'Orphan Rescue' Movement is Transforming Family and Jeopardizing Child Wellbeing in UgandaKristen Cheney7. Imagined and Occasional Co-Presence in Open Adoption: How Adoptive Parents Mediate Birth ConnectionsMandi MacDonald8. Untold Transnational Family Life on the Sonora-Arizona BorderMarcela Sotomayor-Peterson & Ana A. Lucero-Liu9. The Experience of Families Separated by Military DeploymentRuth Ellingsen, Catherine Mogil, & Patricia LesterSection 3: Personal Crises and Family Dispersal10. Children as Providers and Recipients of Support: Redefining Family Among Child-Headed Households in NamibiaMónica Ruiz-Casares, Shelene Gentz, & Jesse Beatson11. Parenting from Prison: The Reality and Experience of DistanceJoyce A. Arditti & Jonathon J. Beckmeyer12. Distance Mothering: The Case of Nonresidential MothersMichelle BemillerSection 4: Family Separation as a Normative Cultural Practice and in Pursuit of Educational Opportunities13. 'Raising Another's Child': Gifting, Communicating and Persevering in Northern NamibiaJill Brown14. Satellite Babies: Costs and benefits of culturally driven parent-infant separations in North American immigrant familiesYvonne Bohr, Cindy H. Liu, Stephen H. Chen, & Leslie K. Wang15. Going the Distance: Transnational Educational Migrant Families in KoreaSumie Okazaki & Jeehun Kim16. Where Should My Child Go to School? Parent and Child Considerations in Binational FamiliesEdmund T. Hamann, Víctor Zúñiga, & Juan Sánchez GarcíaIndex
