Berracas Caring. The Birth, Life and Death of Transnational Families

A Multi‐Sited Ethnography Across Colombia, Spain and France

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12788198
AutoresPolina Palash (0000-0002-5370-4365, Centre Paul Albert-Février), Antonio Souto (0000-0002-1727-9138, Universidade da Coruña, autor correspondente), Laura Oso (0000-0003-1532-6196, Universidade da Coruña), Virginie Baby‐Collin (0000-0003-2961-4324, Centre Paul Albert-Février)
Ano2025
Volume31
Fascículo6
Data de publicação2025-07-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPopulation Space and Place (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1544-8444 • E-ISSN: 1544-8452
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/psp.70071
OpenAlexW4412416709
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas23

This article focuses on transnational care and social protection arrangements in families scattered across their origin context, Colombia, and their migration contexts in France and Spain. It considers gendered caring practices and their evolution over long time frames, applying a life course and trajectory perspective. The article draws on a multi‐sited ethnography conducted in Marseille, Madrid, A Coruña, Medellin and Bogota, with 31 members, mostly female, of three transnational families. Our research allows us to observe the transnational family in the various contexts the family members are located in—‘here,’ ‘there’ and ‘beyond,’—encompassing intergenerational perspectives of the younger, adult or elderly respondents. The results show the birth, life and death of transnational families related to the evolution of family ties intertwined with the migratory, labour and life trajectories of its members, and with their care and social protection arrangements and the underlying tensions

Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Ethnography · Family life · Geography · Life course approach · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Identity, and Health · Psychology