L Baldassar
Biographic Data
| ID | 10907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Baldassar |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Baldassar |
| SIGNATURE | BALDASSAR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6246-4773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 830 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Disrupted Trajectories: Covid ‐19, Transnational Youth Mobility and Unequal Transitions to Adulthood
While the impact of COVID‐19 on youth development has been widely studied, less is known about its effects on transnationally mobile young adults. This longitudinal study of Australian outbound and inbound mobility examines how the pandemic disrupted this population's experiences abroad as they navigated transitions to adulthood. It draws on two waves of survey data collected using a convenience sample between July 2020 and September 2022. Our fi…
Presence and personhood: What Covid-19 taught us about the relational care of family caregivers for people with dementia in residential aged care
COVID-19 lockdowns and infection control restrictions provide a lens through which to explore the important forms of relational and relationship-centred care that are provided by family caregivers for people with dementia living in residential aged care. Insights from qualitative research conducted in the Australian cities of Perth and Adelaide highlight the importance of familiar, intercorporeal and interaffective presence to sustaining well-bei…
Growing Older Across Time and Space: The Impact of Various Forms of Capital on Social Support Networks Among Older Vietnamese Migrants
Much has been written about the important role of social support networks (SSNs) for the well‐being of older adults, encompassing their social, emotional and practical needs. Less is known about what happens to the SSNs of older people when they migrate, and even fewer studies have examined the impact of different forms of capital on these networks. Drawing on ethnographic interviews and participant observation with 22 older Vietnamese migrants i…
Precarity on the move: The relative economic precarity of mobile youth moving to Australia
And Then Covid Happened’: The Impact of the Pandemic on Transition Temporalities for Mobile Youth
This article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic affected mobile young people’s experiences of the temporality of transitions to adulthood. Young people are today the most mobile population globally, and mobility has necessarily become integral to youth-to-adulthood transitions. By adopting transition temporalities as an analytical key, we consider the impact of pandemic immobility on the transition experiences of young movers who, when the pandem…
Good Arts, Good Mental Health®: The effectiveness of an Australian health promotion media campaign in promoting community mental wellbeing via the arts
Introduction This study describes and evaluates Good Arts, Good Mental Health ® (GAGMH), a groundbreaking, population-level, arts-mental health promotion media campaign. The objectives of the campaign (Wave 1) were to increase brand awareness, comprehension, and agreement with the tagline Good Arts, Good Mental Health ® and empower the general population to form an intention to engage in the Arts for their mental wellbeing. Methods The campaign r…
Climbing the not-for-profit leadership ladder in Australia: Equity, diversity, and inclusion
This qualitative study examines equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the leadership roles of not-for-profit organizations (NPOs) where a significant number of social workers engage in professional practice. Two focus groups—one with members of the senior management of NPOs (n = 5) and another with emerging (aspiring and less experienced) leaders of NPOs (n = 6)—were conducted to gather perspectives and opinions on EDI in their organizations’…
Descending asymmetry in proximate, mobile and digital care: Chinese older people grandparenting across distance within China and overseas
This article juxtaposes cases of grandparents who provide care for their grandchildren in two broad types of migrant families: (1) families where some members have migrated from the Chinese countryside to larger cities and (2) families where some members have migrated from China to Australia. By examining the proximate, mobile and digital forms of their grandparenting care labour, this article demonstrates the surprising durability and stability …
Transnational grandparent migration and care-giving: A systematic scoping review
Grandparents are increasingly participating in international migration to resettle with or visit adult children and grandchildren living overseas. In doing so, they make important social, cultural, emotional and financial contributions to transnational families, in particular through providing unpaid childcare and domestic work. This scoping review aims to examine the extent, range and nature of studies on transnational grandparent migration and …
Experiences of culture and cultural negotiations among Russian-speaking migrants: National habitus and cultural continuity dilemmas in child-rearing
How migrants negotiate and adjust to new cultural settings and how they transmit culture to their children are key questions for migration researchers. This paper explores how culture is experienced and negotiated among Russian-speaking migrants, drawing on interviews and observation data collected in Perth, Australia, and Madrid, Spain, together with online forum data and documents. Analysis reveals that long-term socio-historical processes taki…
Managing the permanent temporariness of prolonged migration: The role of local and transnational care circulation among Argentine temporary migrants in Australia
In the past two decades, Australia has shifted from being a settler nation that promoted state-supported permanent migration to one where the scale and relative importance of temporary migration schemes have grown significantly. In 2017, Australia was the second largest issuing country of temporary visa permits after the United States, with temporary migrants applying, on average, for 3.3 temporary visas and spending 6.4 years in this multi-step …
Sideways moves to adult life: The transnational mobility and transitions of young Italians to Australia
Since the Global Financial Crisis, Italy has become (again) a country of emigration for young people, with over one million Italians aged 18–34 living abroad [Fondazione Migrantes, ed. 2019. Rapporto Italiani nel Mondo 2019. Roma: Tau Editrice]. As the country of the ‘long family’, transitions to adulthood in Italy feature a distinctive, prolonged and late move out of the parental home. Transnational mobility thus provides not only an escape from…
Comusichiamo . First Language, Life-Soundtracks and Storytelling to Support the Cultural Wellbeing of Migrants Living with Dementia
This study, located at the intersection of anthropology, ageing, music therapy and dementia, explores the value of music, life-storytelling and first language, to support the cultural identity and wellbeing of people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds living with dementia in Australia. It uses participant observation, the collection of oral histories and ‘life soundtracks’ to co-create a song with older Italian migrants and th…
Enacting Migrant Community: Struggles and Unbelonging in the Field of Russian-Speaking Cultural Production
In this article, based on ethnographic research conducted in Perth, Western Australia and Madrid, Spain, we consider how community is understood and enacted for Russian-speaking migrants and its role in cultural (re)production. Studies often overlook the important role of struggle, contestation and power relations in everyday practices of community making. Drawing on Bourdieu's field theory, we describe the Russian-speaking migrant community as a…
The impacts of Covid-19 restrictions on care-givers of people with cognitive impairment and their support needs: A mixed-methods systematic review
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing restrictions/lockdowns have caused significant physical and psychological consequences for people with cognitive impairment who are heavily dependent on their care-givers. However, little is known about the impact on care-givers, the factors that exacerbate their situation and what supports they need. The aims of this paper are threefold: (a) to examine the impact of COVID-19 physical restrictions on both formal …
Migrant visits over time: Ethnographic returning and the technological turn
This paper reflects on four decades of research (via ethnographic returning) to explore the social transformations in travel and communication technologies that have impacted the lived experiences, and consequently the theoretical conceptualization, of migrant visits. A comparison of migration waves between Italy and Australia reveals both continuities in visiting experience as deeply relational practices that facilitate a mutuality of being, but…
Digital media, ageing and faith: Older Sri Lankan migrants in Australia and their digital articulations of transnational religion
To date, older adults have received little attention in the newly emerging technological narratives of transnational religion. This is surprising, given the strong association of later life with spiritual and religious engagement, but it likely reflects the ongoing assumption that older adults are technophobic or technologically incompetent. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with older Sinhalese Buddhist migrants from Sri Lanka, living in Melbou…
Care visits: Obligations, opportunities and constraints for Vietnamese grandparent visitors in Australia
In examining the ageing-migration nexus from a Global South perspective, this paper explores the obligations, opportunities and constraints of caregiving performed by Vietnamese grandparent visitors during their sojourns in Australia. Employing a grounded theory approach and care circulation framework, we investigate how grandparent visitors and adult migrant children experience and understand care and ageing in contexts of mobility, including an…
Upwardly mobile: How travel became more than just a way to broaden the mind
Lifecourse Transitions: How ICTS Support Older Migrants’ Adaptation to Transnational Lives
Lifecourse transitions from adulthood into older age are particularly complex for transnationalmigrants, bringing additional challenges and opportunities. Adding to the growing literature on ageing and migration, this article illustrates the ways ICTs facilitate the transnational lifecourse transitions of Vietnamese migrant grandparents in Australia through lifecourse digital learning. Research findings highlight the crucial role that digital cit…
Return mobilities and Italian youth transitions: New meanings around adulthood
Part of a larger ethnographic study on Italian youth mobilities, this paper investigates the transitions to adulthood of young returnees who have gone back to Italy after a period of living and working in Australia. Adopting the ‘mobile transitions’ approach, we illustrate the ways in which mobility affects transitions to adulthood. We suggest that upon return these transitions unfold like a palimpsest, where the old texts are layered over with n…
Italian youth mobility: The case for a Mediterranean model of ‘family-centred’ mobile transitions
This article seeks to advance our understanding of contemporary transnational youth mobility, drawing on the concept ‘mobile transitions’ to explore scholarly approaches to the mobility practices of young Italians moving abroad. We present a critical literature review of the intersections of migration, youth and transition studies to argue that the literature on youth transnational mobility currently features two contrasting models comprising a ‘…
Practices of 'Digital Homing' and Gendered Reproduction among Older Sinhalese and Karen Migrants in Australia
The pathway to aging well is not always clear for older migrants living in a foreign country, who must navigate a range of challenges resulting from differences between the cultural expectations of aging in their country of origin and the realities of aging in their country of residence. Transnational migration scholars indicate that digital media are important resources for maintaining relationships and support networks across ‘here’ and ‘there’…
Digital Anticipation: Facilitating the Pre-Emptive Futures of Chinese Grandparent Migrants in Australia
In this article, we contrast the digital kinning and digital homing practices of PRC Chinese transnational grandparents in Australia from two migration cohorts. Our case studies demonstrate that these digital practices form an integral part of the ability to anticipate aging futures. This "digital anticipation" not only helps to safeguard and affirm social and cultural identities that are often at risk as people age in migrant settings, but also …
Is Granny Going Back into the Computer: Visits and the Familial Politics of Seeing and Being Seen in South African Transnational Families
Migration is an increasingly common feature of life globally. This article discusses visits in South African transnational families of diverse origins, exploring the importance and meaning of physical co-presence by examining the role of visits in delivering mutual ‘visibility’ – the ability to see and be seen – when family members meet in person. The data come from a qualitative project exploring South African transnational family relationships,…
Missing Kin and Longing to be Together: Emotions and the Construction of Co-presence in Transnational Relationships
In this paper I explore the emotions of "missing" and "longing" as integral (though not essential) features of the kin-work (di Leonardo) and emotional labour (Hochschild) needed to maintain transnational family relationships. I argue that these emotions manifest in at least four key ways: discursively (through words), physically (through the body) as well as through actions (practice) and imagination (ideas). Hence, I consider emotions through b…
ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: Challenging the Premise of Face-to-Face Proximity in Sustaining Relationships
Mobile transitions: A conceptual framework for researching a generation on the move
This paper argues for a renewed research agenda on the transnational mobility of young people across both youth studies and migration studies. We review key literature across these fields, before arguing for a new conceptual framework that helps to further extend the emerging interdisciplinary space of ‘youth mobility studies’ (Raffaetà, Baldassar and Harris 2016). Our central proposition is that mobility has become an important marker and maker …
De-demonizing distance in mobile family lives: Co-Presence, Care Circulation and Polymedia as Vibrant Matter
A growing literature is addressing the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on transnational family relationships and the ability of family members to be co-present (emotionally ‘there’ for each other) across distance. In this article, I examine how relatively wealthy, middle-class Australian migrants use ICTs to achieve a sense of satisfactory distant co-presence with their transnational family members. I draw on the conce…
Introduction - Negotiating Belonging: Migration and Generations
“Belonging” may well be one of the “softer” social science concepts but it is central to any discussion of some of the hardest issues facing human societies today: immigrant integration and cultura
Too sick to move: Distant ‘crisis’ care in transnational families
This paper examines the crisis of acute and chronic illness, death, and dying in transnational families. These are the stages in the family life-course when physical co-presence is required to deliver hands-on care and intimate emotional support for the sick family member. It is a time when distant kin feel they need ‘to be there’, including for their own sense of well-being. This period of ‘crisis’ (in the anthropological sense) makes visible al…
Digital media and the affective economies of transnational families
Digital media are widely recognised as essential to the maintenance of transnational families. To date, most accounts have focused on the role of digital media practices as producing and sustaining transnational relationships, through, for example, the practices of ‘digital kinning’. In this article, we extend that body of work by drawing attention to the specific role of the emotions that are circulated through digital media interactions and pra…
"Introduction to the Special Issue "Transnational care: Families confronting borders
In this article, we introduce the key themes of our Special Issue on "Transnational care: families confronting borders". Central to this collection is the question of how family relations and solidarities are impacted by the current scenario of closed borders and increasingly restrictive migration regimes. This question is examined more specifically through the lens of care dynamics within transnational families and their (re-)configurations acro…
Marias and marriage: Ethnicity, gender and sexuality among Italo-Australian youth in Perth1
Using an ethnographic account of weddings and network activities among Italo-Australian youth in Perth, and, in particular, a symbolic analysis of garters and bouquets, this paper explores the intersections of ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and reviews social scientific theories of ethnic identity and cultural transmission. By investigating the double standard-where men are free to be sexually active and women are not-it confronts some of the s…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Transnational Family Care ‘On Hold’? Intergenerational Relationships and Obligations in the Context of Immobility Regimes
Brandhorst R, Baldassar L, Wilding R. Introduction to the Special Issue: “Transnational Family Care ‘On Hold’? Intergenerational Relationships and Obligations in the Context of Immobility Regimes”. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships . 2020;18(3):261-280
Intra‐diaspora Knowledge Transfer and ‘New’ Italian Migration
The Italian Australia diaspora is a heterogeneous mix of regional, class and generational identities. This article identifies and considers the influence of four recent Italian‐Australian cohorts on the processes of Italian‐Australian cultural formation. Of particular interest is the most recent wave of migrants (post‐2000), whose arrival is prompted by the European economic crisis and facilitated by Australia's skilled migration programme. We ar…
Afghan Hazara Refugees in Australia: Constructing Australian Citizens
This paper explores the construction of Australian citizenship, in particular contestations over membership in the community, through the interactions between two groups of people who live and work in a regional town in Australia: volunteer English language tutors and Afghan Hazara refugees who were granted temporary protection visas (TPVs). The paper examines the power relations which operate between the two groups and other relevant institution…
The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective
Richard Alba and Mary Waters (eds) THE NEXT GENERATION: IMMIGRANT YOUTH IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, New York: New York University Press, 2011, viii + 369 pp., $25.00 (paper) The second and subseq
Settling down in time and place? Changing intimacies in mobile young people's migration and life courses
Transnational mobility is increasingly presented to middle‐class youth globally as a way to secure economic futures in precarious times by enhancing educational and employment opportunities. However, little is said about the benefits and impacts of mobility for social and intimate life and specifically how it is situated within, disruptive of, or incorporated into young people's ideas about relationships as they navigate uncertain pathways to adu…
Transnational family-work balance: Experiences of Australian migrants caring for ageing parents and young children across distance and borders
How are work and family balanced across national borders and distances? Are there unique features to these transnational balancing acts, or are they simply the same stories being reproduced on a global scale? We use qualitative interview data from migrants who live with their dependent children in Australia, and who simultaneously care for their ageing parents in Italy and Ireland, to explore points of similarity and difference in the balance of …
Ageing, migration and new media: The significance of transnational care
The experiences of ageing for today's older people present a striking contrast to those of the past. They are entering older age in a world that is characterised by complex mobilities and flows, in which large numbers of people are ageing in countries other than the one in which they were born and often at a distance from their closest family members. At the same time, new media are providing unprecedented opportunities to bring distant places an…
The Vietnamese in Australia: Diaspora Identity, Intra-Group Tensions, Transnational Ties and 'Victim' Status
This paper examines how class, gender, generation and regional background impact on the development of diaspora and community identity as well as ties to homeland among Vietnamese migrants in Australia. Drawing on the empirical findings of a research project conducted in three Australian cities, we assess the character of the Vietnamese diaspora in Australia by critically applying Cohen’s (2008. Global Diasporas. London: Taylor and Francis) typol…
The need for a 'migration turn' in aged care policy: A comparative study of Australian and German migration policies and their impact on migrant aged care
Despite their sociodemographic importance, investigations of the intersections of ageing and migration remain infrequent. We address this gap by analysing the policy approach to migrant aged care in two countries: Australia and Germany. Our comparative analysis highlights how national histories of migration and associated welfare regimes have given rise to different approaches to meeting the needs of older migrants. Germany has a prevalence of ma…
It's complicated, isn't it: Citizenship and ethnic identity in a mobile world
This article explores the experiences of second-generation migrants with a focus on Chinese in Prato (Italy), for whom the relationship between citizenship and identity is tightly linked. Most studies maintain that the link between citizenship and identity is instrumentalist or ambiguous. In contrast, we focus on the affective dimension of citizenship and identity. We argue that citizenship status functions as a key defining concept of identity i…
Leaving Family to Return to Family: Roots Migration Among Second-Generation Italian-Australians
This article examines "roots migration" (visits and repatriations) of second-generation Italian-Australians to their ancestral homeland. Despite the current economic climate, these young adults have moved to Italy, hence their motivation for migration goes beyond economic drivers and is best explained by psychosocial factors. Drawing on ethnographic analysis, our aim is to highlight the importance of the dimension of the family, which has tended …
Digital Anticipation: Facilitating the Pre-Emptive Futures of Chinese Grandparent Migrants in Australia
In this article, we contrast the digital kinning and digital homing practices of PRC Chinese transnational grandparents in Australia from two migration cohorts. Our case studies demonstrate that these digital practices form an integral part of the ability to anticipate aging futures. This "digital anticipation" not only helps to safeguard and affirm social and cultural identities that are often at risk as people age in migrant settings, but also …
Tracking Transnationalism: Migrancy and its Futures
In this introduction to the special issue we argue that a reconsideration of the notion of ‘migrancy’ can add greater emphasis to a particular methodological terrain within the burgeoning literature on transnationalism. The legacy of anthropological work on migrancy in southern Africa and the more recent use of the term as a trope in the ‘postmodern’ world by academics in cultural studies raise three intertwined features of a migrancy perspective…
Care visits: Obligations, opportunities and constraints for Vietnamese grandparent visitors in Australia
In examining the ageing-migration nexus from a Global South perspective, this paper explores the obligations, opportunities and constraints of caregiving performed by Vietnamese grandparent visitors during their sojourns in Australia. Employing a grounded theory approach and care circulation framework, we investigate how grandparent visitors and adult migrant children experience and understand care and ageing in contexts of mobility, including an…
Italian youth mobility: The case for a Mediterranean model of ‘family-centred’ mobile transitions
This article seeks to advance our understanding of contemporary transnational youth mobility, drawing on the concept ‘mobile transitions’ to explore scholarly approaches to the mobility practices of young Italians moving abroad. We present a critical literature review of the intersections of migration, youth and transition studies to argue that the literature on youth transnational mobility currently features two contrasting models comprising a ‘…
The social reproductive worlds of migrants
The articles in this special issue contribute new insights to a growing body of scholarship on the risks and opportunities migration presents for migrant families’ social reproduction, variously understood as the physical and social/cultural processes entailed in reproducing people, and the strategies migrants develop to navigate those risks and opportunities. Informed by the notion of ‘care circulation’ (Baldassar & Merla, 2014) collectively the…
Marias and marriage: Ethnicity, gender and sexuality among Italo-Australian youth in Perth1
Using an ethnographic account of weddings and network activities among Italo-Australian youth in Perth, and, in particular, a symbolic analysis of garters and bouquets, this paper explores the intersections of ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and reviews social scientific theories of ethnic identity and cultural transmission. By investigating the double standard-where men are free to be sexually active and women are not-it confronts some of the s…
Migration Monuments in Italy and Australia: Contesting Histories and Transforming Identities
Rather than focusing on how Italians share the neighbourhood with other groups, this paper examines some of the intra-group processes (i.e. relations between Italians themselves) that produced various monuments to Italian migration in Australia, Brazil and Italy. Through their distinct styles and formulations, the monuments reflect diverse and often competing elaborations of the migrant experience by different generations at local, national and t…
Families Caring Across Borders: Migration, Ageing and Transnational Caregiving
This is an ethnographic account of the transnational caregiving experiences and practices of Australian migrants and refugees, caring for their elderly parents in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and New
Transnational Families and the Provision of Moral and Emotional Support: The Relationship Between Truth and Distance
This article is an ethnographic analysis of transnational family links between adult migrant children living in Australia and their kin in Italy, from the 1950s to the present. A key focus of the article is the persistence of bonds of emotion across distance. Drawing on Finch and Mason's research on caregiving relationships and Hochschild's work on emotional labour, it explores both the positive experiences as well as the tensions associated with…
L’aide transnationale au sein des familles d’immigrés qualifiés établis en Australie: Une comparaison entre les immigrés italiens et les réfugiés afghans1
Pour la plupart, les relations d’aide intergénérationnelle transnationale ont été centrées sur la prise en nourrice et la garde d’enfants. En revanche, le présent article s’intéresse à l’échange d’aide transnationale entre des immigrés établis en Australie et leurs parents vieillissants « restés au pays », ce qui est en contradiction avec l’idée que l’aide ne peut s’opérer que dans un contexte de proximité physique. Le modèle d’aide transnational…
Tracking Transnationalism: Migrancy and its Futures
In this introduction to the special issue we argue that a reconsideration of the notion of ‘migrancy’ can add greater emphasis to a particular methodological terrain within the burgeoning literature on transnationalism. The legacy of anthropological work on migrancy in southern Africa and the more recent use of the term as a trope in the ‘postmodern’ world by academics in cultural studies raise three intertwined features of a migrancy perspective…
Introduction - Negotiating Belonging: Migration and Generations
“Belonging” may well be one of the “softer” social science concepts but it is central to any discussion of some of the hardest issues facing human societies today: immigrant integration and cultura
Afghan Hazara Refugees in Australia: Constructing Australian Citizens
This paper explores the construction of Australian citizenship, in particular contestations over membership in the community, through the interactions between two groups of people who live and work in a regional town in Australia: volunteer English language tutors and Afghan Hazara refugees who were granted temporary protection visas (TPVs). The paper examines the power relations which operate between the two groups and other relevant institution…
Missing Kin and Longing to be Together: Emotions and the Construction of Co-presence in Transnational Relationships
In this paper I explore the emotions of "missing" and "longing" as integral (though not essential) features of the kin-work (di Leonardo) and emotional labour (Hochschild) needed to maintain transnational family relationships. I argue that these emotions manifest in at least four key ways: discursively (through words), physically (through the body) as well as through actions (practice) and imagination (ideas). Hence, I consider emotions through b…
Transnational family-work balance: Experiences of Australian migrants caring for ageing parents and young children across distance and borders
How are work and family balanced across national borders and distances? Are there unique features to these transnational balancing acts, or are they simply the same stories being reproduced on a global scale? We use qualitative interview data from migrants who live with their dependent children in Australia, and who simultaneously care for their ageing parents in Italy and Ireland, to explore points of similarity and difference in the balance of …
Présentation: Les dynamiques de soin transnationales entre émotions et considérations économiques
Nous avons conçu ce numéro spécial autour d’un double objectif : accroître la visibilité des familles transnationales et du soin transnational, ce que d’aucuns ont appelé la sphère domestique transnationale (Gardner/Grillo, 2002) ou la sphère privée diasporique (Baldassar/Gabaccia, 2010), et interroger une certaine approche traditionnelle de l’étude des migrations centrée sur des questions économiques et qui néglige le rôle que les émotions peuve…
Ce 'sentiment de culpabilité: Réflexion sur la relation entre émotions et motivation dans les migrations et le soin transnational
Cet article explore l’expérience de la “culpabilité” en tant qu’émotion jouant un rôle moteur dans les obligations réciproques de soin dans les relations familiales transnationales. Je pose l’hypothèse qu’en créant une séparation physique, une absence et un sentiment de manque, l’acte migratoire pousse les migrants à se sentir coupables de ne pas remplir l’obligation morale de coprésence. Les migrants se sentent souvent coupables de ne pas être p…
The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective
Richard Alba and Mary Waters (eds) THE NEXT GENERATION: IMMIGRANT YOUTH IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, New York: New York University Press, 2011, viii + 369 pp., $25.00 (paper) The second and subseq
Intra‐diaspora Knowledge Transfer and ‘New’ Italian Migration
The Italian Australia diaspora is a heterogeneous mix of regional, class and generational identities. This article identifies and considers the influence of four recent Italian‐Australian cohorts on the processes of Italian‐Australian cultural formation. Of particular interest is the most recent wave of migrants (post‐2000), whose arrival is prompted by the European economic crisis and facilitated by Australia's skilled migration programme. We ar…
Too sick to move: Distant ‘crisis’ care in transnational families
This paper examines the crisis of acute and chronic illness, death, and dying in transnational families. These are the stages in the family life-course when physical co-presence is required to deliver hands-on care and intimate emotional support for the sick family member. It is a time when distant kin feel they need ‘to be there’, including for their own sense of well-being. This period of ‘crisis’ (in the anthropological sense) makes visible al…
Guilty feelings and the guilt trip: Emotions and motivation in migration and transnational caregiving
Emotions on the move: Mapping the emergent field of emotion and migration
Chinese immigrant youth identities and belonging in Prato, Italy: Exploring the intersections between migration and youth studies
This article explores the experiences of young people of Chinese background in Prato (Italy). Despite significant social exclusion, young Chinese develop a sense of belonging to Prato by creating local, translocal and transnational affiliations and interconnections. These relationships contribute to making an often overtly hostile local reality, liveable and meaningful. A central aim of this article is to examine the intersection between migratio…
Beyond “Just Being There”: Teaching Internationalization at Home in Two Qualitative Methods Units
Study-abroad and international-student programs are commonly understood to transform their participants into “global citizens” possessing “cross-cultural competencies.” Similar benefits are anticipated from “internationalization at home”—defined as any on-campus, internationally related activity—whereby international students engage with and thus enrich the lives of domestic students. In this article, we reflect on a research project tied to two …
Concluding reflections: Care circulation' in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts
Aquest simposi ofereix una discussió crítica de les lògiques i dinàmiques entorn de la nova perspectiva de la «circulació de la cura» presentades per Loretta Baldassar i Laura Merla en el seu volum titulat Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care. En aquesta contribució, les autores aborden tres temes: la cura com a capital social, la necessitat de recuperar «la política» i la (des)-corporalitat de les pràctiques de cura. Sub…
ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: Challenging the Premise of Face-to-Face Proximity in Sustaining Relationships
De-demonizing distance in mobile family lives: Co-Presence, Care Circulation and Polymedia as Vibrant Matter
A growing literature is addressing the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on transnational family relationships and the ability of family members to be co-present (emotionally ‘there’ for each other) across distance. In this article, I examine how relatively wealthy, middle-class Australian migrants use ICTs to achieve a sense of satisfactory distant co-presence with their transnational family members. I draw on the conce…
Ageing in transnational contexts: Transforming everyday practices and identities in later life
This Special Issue on ‘Ageing in Transnational Contexts: Transforming Everyday Practices and Identities in Later Life’ extends our understanding of how ageing is experienced in transnational contexts. It focuses on how everyday lives and identities in older age are being negotiated by individuals who have migration histories or who are affected by the mobilities of others in their lives. In the introduction, we situate our approach within an emer…
‘More like a daughter than an employee’: The kinning process between migrant care workers, elderly care receivers and their extended families
This paper explores the intersections of formal and informal care in the relationships that develop between elderly care receivers and their families and migrant domestic care workers and their families. The domestic migrant care literature has tended to focus on two main ‘hidden costs’ of this ‘care-chain’: the ‘care exploitation’ of paid carers by their employers and the ‘care drain’ impact on the family members left behind by the migrant. In t…
Mobile transitions: A conceptual framework for researching a generation on the move
This paper argues for a renewed research agenda on the transnational mobility of young people across both youth studies and migration studies. We review key literature across these fields, before arguing for a new conceptual framework that helps to further extend the emerging interdisciplinary space of ‘youth mobility studies’ (Raffaetà, Baldassar and Harris 2016). Our central proposition is that mobility has become an important marker and maker …
Sociology (49 works) · Political science (44 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (37 works) · Gender Studies (34 works) · Psychology (27 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (18 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (18 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (16 works) · Social science (15 works) · Anthropology (14 works)