Timescales of Transnational Social Reproduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24229189 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Withers (0000-0001-9132-9714, Australian National University), Jessie Liu (0000-0002-1089-7005, ETLab, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 481-504 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sp/jxag026 |
| OpenAlex | W7202286658 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 56 |
Social reproduction encompasses multiple time-bound processes: from the everyday political economy of caring, to cumulative investments in embodied individuals across their life course, and the longue durèé of social and ecological transformation. A growing literature on transnational social reproduction has emphasized the spatial reorganization of these processes during migration, with less attention paid to the temporal dimension. Drawing on extensive interviews with households participating in the Pacific Australia labor Mobility scheme, this article interrogates the discordant timescales of socially reproductive aspirations and outcomes implicit in guestworker migration. A common theme is the trade-off between present realities and future aspirations: the acceptance of depleted socially reproductive capacities, often narrated as “sacrifice,” to achieve longer-term goals that hinge on housing and education. Findings suggest the transient benefits of remittances obfuscate the cumulative undermining of longer-term socially reproductive processes essential to life-making among communities on the periphery of capitalist social relations.
Housing · life course · life-making · periphery · remittances · Sacrifice · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender, Health, and Social Inequality · Migration and Labor Dynamics
Land, Custom and Practice in the South Pacific
Social Reproduction Theory
Ipcc, 2023
Depletion through transnational social reproduction
Living at work
Disciplining production and reproduction in special economic zones beyond China
Gate-Cane
Circuits of Social Reproduction
Gender and Social Reproduction
Covid-19 Outbreaks in Canada and the Crisis of Migrant Farmworkers’ Social Reproduction
Depletion
Unfree Labour and Australia’s Obscured Pacific Histories
Migration-affected change and vulnerability in rural Vanuatu
Beyond development impact
Gendering the dormitory labor system
The Geopolitics of Social Reproduction and Depletion
Obligations, Ambitions, Calculations
Rethinking Care Through Social Reproduction
Carceral Spaces and Social Reproduction
Bad elements
Rural-urban migrants, translocal communities and the myth of return migration in Vanuatu
Dreaming of a Remittance House
Gender, International Migration and Social Reproduction
Ultra‐Processed Food, Depletion, and Social Reproduction
The Origins of Capitalist Development
Guestworker Schemes in Pacific Island Countries
Improving the Contribution of Migrant Remittances to Development
The Functions and Reproduction of Migrant Labor
Managed Temporary Labour Migration of Pacific Islanders to Australia and New Zealand in the Early Twenty-first Century
Conceptualising the Migration–Food Security Nexus
Lost in space (and time)
Running on Empty
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
Feminist everyday political economy
Women, Migration, and Care
Decolonisation and the Pacific
Sometimes, men cannot do what women can
The critical temporalities of serial migration and family social reproduction in Southeast Asia
"Doing Family in "Times of Migration
A Road With No End
The production of precariousness and the racialisation of Pacific Islanders in an Australian horticultural region
Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor
Introduction
Migrant, interrupted
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