Changing family structures of Nepalese transmigrants in Japan

Split-Households and Dual-Wage Earners

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4262870
AutoresKeiko Yamanaka (University of California, Berkeley, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume5
Fascículo4
Páginas337-358
Data de publicação2005-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1471-0374.2005.00123.x
OpenAlexW1982452765
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas28

Based on surveys and interviews conducted in Japan and Nepal, this study of Nepalese labour migration to Japan examines the changing patterns of family responses to international migration, the increasing participation of married women in the global labour force, and the implications of these changes for households, communities and the Nepalese economy. The split-household family has long supported sojourning males of Tibeto–Burman linguistic groups as Gurkha soldiers in Indian and British Armies before returning to Nepal upon retirement. As women have increasingly left Nepal to take advantage of overseas employment, a pattern of husband–wife migration has emerged, with children being left in the hands of relatives – the dual-wage earner family. Thus, Nepal has recently witnessed the development of transnational families and individuals whose work, residence and life trajectories extend beyond the nation-state

Agriculture · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Political science · Residence · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Wage · Wage labour · Wife · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy