Salvadoran Migrants in Australia

An Analysis of Transnational Families’ Capability to Care across Borders

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9953033
AutoresLaura Merla (0000-0002-4823-9075, Catholic University of Louvain Belgium, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume53
Fascículo6
Páginas153-165
Data de publicação2012-11-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/imig.12024
OpenAlexW2113093777
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas32
Referências citadas17

In this paper, I focus on the transnational care practices of Salvadoran refugees living in Perth (Western Australia) and who care for their ageing parents who have remained in their home country. The analysis is based on a conceptualization of transnational care as a set of capabilities that include, but are not limited to, mobility, social relations, time allocation, education and knowledge, paid work and communication (Merla and Baldassar, 2011). I focus in particular on the impact of Salvadoran refugees’ difficult access to, and use of, these capabilities on their capacity to fulfil their culturally defined sense of obligation to care for their ageing parents. Results show that extended transnational kinship networks play a major role in helping migrants overcome obstacles to transnational caregiving

Conceptualization · Economic growth · Elder care · Focus (optics · Kinship · Obligation · Political science · Refugee · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Gerontology