Families, Intimacy and Globalization: Floating Ties

ISBN-13: 9781137338594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 201 str.

Raelene Wilding

Opis

This book examines the traditional ways of conceptualising family and explores how increased mobility, migration and changes in technology and culture caring from afar or transnational partnerships. It takes a cutting edge look at a longstanding topic of teaching.

Spis treści

1.Families, Intimacy and Globalisation: An introduction 2.Transnational love and partnering 3. Distant Couples 4.Transnational Parents and Global Care Chains 5. Transnational Childhoods 6.Aged Care and Intergenerational Relations 7.The global extended family: identities and relatedness 8.Beyond heteronormative relationships 9.Families, intimacy and globalization: Floating ties.

O autorze

Raelene Wilding is Associate Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research explores the experiences and practices of transnational families across the life-course and across a range of migration categories, from skilled to humanitarian migrants. She has a particular interest in the circulation of care and support across national and cultural borders, and the uses of new media to maintain relationships. Her previous books include Families Caring Across Borders (Palgrave, with Baldassar and Baldock) and Race and Ethnic Relations (OUP, with Fozdar and Hawkins).

Blurb

Using detailed examples from all corners of the globe and across the life course, from internet dating to parenting to aged care, this thought-provoking book examines the transformation of relationships by the processes of migration, cultural and economic flows that are central to globalization. Growing numbers of partners, parents, children, grandchildren and siblings are living far away from each other, in different towns, cities and countries. Yet, their opportunities to stay in touch have never been greater. Smart phones, tablets and personal computers are used by parents in London to care for their children in the Philippines. Refugees use telephones and international transfers to send money and support to parents overseas. Funerals, weddings and anniversaries prompt return visits by plane and are streamed online to kin around the world. The tools and processes of globalization are transforming the ways in which people ‘do’ and think about their families. This book examines their experiences in order to chart the tensions between the freedoms and choices of late modern individuals, on the one hand, and the constraints of relational ties of love and obligation, on the other, which produce the ‘floating ties’ of global families and intimacy.