A macro perspective on transnational families and care circulation: situating capacity, obligation, and family commitments

Merla, Laura
(2014) Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care: understanding mobility and absence in family life — ISBN: [978-0-415-62673-6], 115-129, published

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This chapter discusses the usefulness of situating the care circulation framework in a migratory context by discussing the interconnectedness between institutional contexts and capacity, obligation and negotiated commitments. The author shows that care arrangements that result from a dialectical relationship between these three elements are influenced by migrants and their kin's respective positioning in the migration, gendered care, welfare and working-time regimes of their societies of origin and destination. The chapter also highlights the tensions that arise between various moral orders within transnational family networks, and within host societies.
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Merla, L. (2014). A macro perspective on transnational families and care circulation: situating capacity, obligation, and family commitments. In Loretta Baldassar & Laura Merla (ed.), Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care: understanding mobility and absence in family life (pp. 115-129). Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/232279