Grandparenting left-behind children in Javanese Migrant-sending villages
Trigenerational care circuits and the negotiation of care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8942006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bittiandra Chand Somaiah (0000-0001-6771-0566, National University of Singapore, corresponding author), B S A Yeoh (0000-0002-0240-3175, National University of Singapore) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 143 |
| Pages | 103767-103767 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103767 |
| PMID | 37456574 |
| OpenAlex | W4376631631 |
| Language | NL |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 47 |
Parental labour migration requires recalibrations of care arrangements within the left-behind family. Existing studies of left-behind families, however, have largely concentrated on parental rather than grandparental caregiving of grandchildren. We argue that grandparents are pivotal to care work and changing family formations within migrant-sending villages. Grandparents provide supplementary care, substitutive care and even reconstitutive care, depending on the migration and marital status of the parents. The paper emphasizes the often unilateral care-contracts between grandparents and migrant parents, drawing on material primarily from the qualitative interviews of grandparent carers of left-behind children, and the grandchildren themselves. By considering a variety of family contexts in flux as a result of parental migration (mother, father or both parents) and marital dissolution amidst migration, we examine family situations holistically by taking into account the different modes of care provided by grandparents (occasionally in tandem with aunts) within changing care contexts
Child care · Developmental psychology · Extended family · Grandparent · Left behind · Negotiation · Psychiatry · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Nursing · Psychology
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Afterword
The Construction of Grandparenthood
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |