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Portuguese Transnational Families and Communication Technology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21877146 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Rodan (University of Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Excursions Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2055-494X • E-ISSN: 2044-4095 |
| Publisher | University of Sussex (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.20919/exs.8.2018.226 |
| OpenAlex | W3009448878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
Up to 110,000 Portuguese a year left their homeland in the period following the implementation of Troika austerity measures. The UK was the most popular destination, with a third of arrivals now holding degrees- the highest proportion in Europe and double what it was 10 years earlier. This paper focuses on how the latest generation of transnational families use communication technology and digital networking at a time of swiftly evolving social and technological change. Drawing on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork with university-educated Portuguese migrants in London aged 23-40, and with their families in Portugal, I will explore how communication technology has shaped their experiences. Employing anthropological concepts of relatedness and personhood, I will focus specifically on the changing nature of transnational living in an increasingly polarised, neoliberal world and what it means to be a Portuguese transnational family in Europe in 2017
Austerity · Ethnography · Homeland · Personhood · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Sociology · Anthropology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Media, Place and Mobility
The Polish peasant in Europe and America
Children of Global Migration
Remote mothering and the parallel shift
Familial persons in dark times
Being Alive
Overseas Filipino Workers and Text Messaging
Ethnographies of Austerity
Digital Passages
Coming of Age in Second Life
Migration and new media
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Cheap Calls
Virtual' intimacies? Families communicating across transnational contexts
Long distance intimacy
The ideology of friendship in the era of Facebook
Blurring Boundaries? Linking Technology Use, Spillover, Individual Distress, and Family Satisfaction
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |