Time, space and care

Rethinking transnational care from a temporal perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID5032001
AuthorsYanqiu Rachel Zhou (0000-0002-8462-9177, McMaster University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume24
Issue2
Pages163-182
Publication date2015-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x13491341
OpenAlexW2328584347
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited42

Against the background of unprecedented international migration, it is not clear how people's transnational mobility and ties have intersected with the temporalities associated with places or spaces. Drawing on the data from an empirical study of the caregiving experiences of Chinese grandparents in Canada, this case study reveals the simultaneous, yet uneven, temporal impacts of transnational care on individual, familial, and transnational levels. Although the coexistence of multiple temporalities enables Chinese skilled immigrant families to mobilize care resources across generations and nation-states, the dominance of the neoliberal temporal framework also means various consequences of such transnational 'flexibility'. I argue that rethinking transnational care from a temporal perspective helps us identify the linkages, discrepancies and contradictions between 'global time' and peripheral temporalities and between time and space, and thus makes visible the inequalities - in particular, the temporal inequalities - embedded in human migration and social relations on a transnational scale

Dominance (genetics · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geography · Grandparent · Immigration · Inequality · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies

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