« Doing » family across distance and national borders: conceptual tools for research

Merla, Laura
(2016) Famliy – space – identity: Theoretical and empirical approaches after the spatial turn — Location: Deutches JungendInstitut, Munich, Germany (20.October.2016)

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In order to fully understand family life, which is increasingly performed in a context of geographical mobility, and where co-residence tends to lose its centrality, researchers need to develop new conceptual tools that cross disciplinary boundaries. This conference builds on the research I have conducted over the past 10 years on the maintenance of family ties and solidarities across geographical distance and national borders. Here I will present a conceptual framework for understanding the dialectical relation between geographical distance and emotional proximity in family life (Merla, François & Jansen, 2014), that combines insights from sociology and psychology, and I will illustrate it with empirical examples from my research on transnational families.
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Merla, L. (2016). « Doing » family across distance and national borders: conceptual tools for research. Famliy – space – identity: Theoretical and empirical approaches after the spatial turn, Deutches JungendInstitut, Munich, Germany. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/180154