Kristin E. Yarris

Care Across Generations

Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families

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Produktbeschreibung

Kristin E. Yarris is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Oregon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781503602885
• ISBN-10: 1503602885
• Artikelnr.: 53016474

Autorenporträt

Kristin E. Yarris is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents and Abstracts
1Tenemos Que Hacerlo: Responsibility and Sacrifice in Grandmother Care
chapter abstract
This chapter reviews patterns of gender and kinship in Nicaraguan families
and shows how gendered inequalities shape grandmothers' assumption of
caregiving following mother migration. The chapter uses ethnographic
examples to demonstrate how grandmothers respond to these gendered
inequalities, negotiating relationships with children's fathers and
managing the legal and social vulnerabilities related to their roles as
intergenerational caregivers. The chapter shows how grandmothers experience
caregiving as both a responsibility-providing everyday care for
children-and as a source of emotional connection, meaning, and motivation.
The chapter documents how grandmothers respond to the prospect of family
reunification-the migration of the children in their care to join mothers
abroad-by drawing on values of solidarity and sacrifice.
2No Se Ajustan: Remittances and Moral Economies of Migration
chapter abstract
This chapter explores the material and affective dimensions of remittances
to illustrate the reconfigurations of care in transnational families and
the related tensions. The chapter shows how a solely material view of the
money migrants send from abroad fails to capture the complex emotional and
affective dimensions of remittances from the perspective of grandmothers
and the children in their care. Just as remittances are a concrete sign
that mothers abroad remain pendiente (responsible) for families in
Nicaragua, they also serve as an unavoidable reminder of mothers' ongoing
absence from everyday family life. In this way, grandmothers' insistence of
remittances that no se ajustan (they do not measure up) indexes a moral
economy of care and migration that sets remittances against the values of
sacrifice and solidarity that grandmothers seek to foster in transnational
family life.
3Pensando Mucho: Transnational Care and Grandmothers' Distress
chapter abstract
This chapter demonstrates the cultural significance of grandmothers' roles
as caregivers in transnational families by exploring their experiences of
embodied, emotional distress. Specifically, the chapter argues that
grandmother caregivers use the expression pensando mucho (thinking too
much) to express the uncertainties and troubles of transnational family
life. The idiom of "thinking too much" indexes the moral ambivalence of
mother migration, which grandmothers understand to be an economic necessity
but which threatens values for unity and solidarity in family life. In this
analysis, by thinking too much grandmothers increase the visibility of
their caregiving by inscribing their significance through a specific set of
somatic symptoms. This communicative aspect of pensando mucho allows
grandmothers to draw attention to their embodied distress, signaling the
disruption of transnational family life while emphasizing the cultural
value of their care.
4Care and Responsibility Across Generations: A Family Migration Portrait
chapter abstract
This chapter presents the story of one Nicaraguan transnational family,
showing how migration's impacts on those who stay behind in migrant-sending
countries are embedded in time and imprinted across generations. In
particular, this close analysis of one family's experience with migration,
taking the grandmother's perspective as the central analytical starting
point, demonstrates how past experiences of migration influence family
members' responses to migration in the present, and how-in turn-present
uncertainties shape hopes and fears for the future. This intergenerational
perspective demonstrates the importance of analyzing migration as both a
temporal and a spatial process, widening our analytical lens on
transnational family life across time and, cumulatively, over generations.
Conclusion: Valuing Care Across Borders and Generations
chapter abstract
Focusing attention on grandmother caregivers' experiences of the
uncertainties of transnational family life calls us to think more broadly
about migration's effects on extended families across national borders, in
host and home countries, and across generations, beyond mothers and
children and into the networks of extended kin who assume essential
caregiving roles in migrant-sending countries like Nicaragua. Grandmothers
in Nicaraguan families assume responsibilities for children of mother
migrants through an informal reconfiguration of caregiving and kinship
obligations, although they lack legal protection and social support. This
chapter reviews the social and political consequences of approaching
transnational migration from an intergenerational perspective, presenting
possible policy responses in migrant-sending and migrant-receiving
countries that would value intergenerational care and support migrants,
caregivers, and children in transnational families.
Introduction: Solidaridad: Nicaraguan Migration and Intergenerational Care
chapter abstract
This chapter presents an overview of the values of solidarity and sacrifice
and their meanings in relation to the reconfigurations of care and kinship
that follow mother migration. The chapter reviews political and economic
dynamics relevant for understanding contemporary Nicaraguan migration. The
chapter situates intergenerational care in transnational families within
recent research on migration and care, including care chains and care
circulations, showing how grandmothers are central actors in global
transformations of care economies. The chapter also reviews current
anthropological theorizing about care, showing how intergenerational care
is a moral practice oriented toward upholding cultural values for family
continuity and for children's everyday well-being in families divided by
borders.