Commemorative coin, Italian migration to Brazil Monument to transnational migration 1996 - Italy methodological and methodological and conceptual issues conceptual issues 1. from MIGRATION to 1. from MIGRATION to TRANSNATIONALISM frame TRANSNATIONALISM frame
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Commemorative coin, Italian migration to Brazil
Monument to transnational
migration 1996 - Italy
methodological and methodological and conceptual issuesconceptual issues
1. from MIGRATION to 1. from MIGRATION to TRANSNATIONALISM frameTRANSNATIONALISM frame
Monument to migration l’incontro (reunion) 1985 Italy
transnational lives: transnational lives: researching researching co-presence in family and co-presence in family and
working livesworking lives
TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES: Families that live some or most of the time separated from each other, yet hold together and create something that can be seen as a feeling of collective welfare and unity, namely ‘familyhood’, even across national borders (Bryceson & Vuorela 2002:18)
TRANSNATIONAL WORKING LIVESbrain circulation (Agunias 2006)Skill and knowledge transfer (e.g uses of new technologies)
Ireland
PERTH
Singapore
Netherlands
Italy
Transnational Caregiving project (ARC funded)
Iran
New Zealand
Method: approx 200 ethnographic/life-history interviews and participant observation with migrants in Perth, Western Australia, and their parents abroad
6. Trace transnational social fields and virtual 6. Trace transnational social fields and virtual (and other) forms of co-presence (and other) forms of co-presence
Commemorative coinItalian migrationTrevisani Nel Mondo Association
7.7. The The importance of importance of various levels of various levels of social life social life including including individual, family, individual, family, community, nationcommunity, nation
Situated transnationalismsSituated transnationalismsRegimes: e.g. welfare, Regimes: e.g. welfare, employment, care, migration, employment, care, migration, (Kilkey & Merla 2012)(Kilkey & Merla 2012)
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A Lady Reading a Letter Gerrit ter Borch, 1660s
Virtual kiss, 2010s
Communication technologies - offer the potential, for the first time in history, to control when and how we care across distance
Mobilities and technologies as a new paradigm for understanding ‘new’ migration
8. The profound 8. The profound impact of the social impact of the social uses of new uses of new technologies technologies
Irish parent:Irish parent:In the old days (1900s-1950s) when In the old days (1900s-1950s) when people migrated to Australia they people migrated to Australia they would hold a wake, it was like we’re would hold a wake, it was like we’re never going to see you again, you’re never going to see you again, you’re gone forever! gone forever!
These days (2000s--), if your child These days (2000s--), if your child moves to Australia, it is more likely moves to Australia, it is more likely to inspire the purchase of a new to inspire the purchase of a new computer. computer.
9. Methodological Nationalism9. Methodological Nationalismthe false assumption that particular the false assumption that particular
cultural traits or processes are “unitary cultural traits or processes are “unitary and organically related to, and fixed and organically related to, and fixed within, [geographic] territories”within, [geographic] territories”