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Chinese Transnational Families: Care Circulation and Children’s Life Paths book cover

1st Edition

Chinese Transnational Families Care Circulation and Children’s Life Paths

By Laura Lamas-Abraira Copyright 2022
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge
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The research presented in this book explores care and its circulation in Chinese transnational families that are split between China and Spain, and the paths these families’ children have taken through their lives so far: from their early years to their current position as young adults, with care, in its multiple dimensions and timescales – past, present and future – as the unifying thread. In... Read more

Introduction: The Whole and its Parts

PART I: RESEARCH CONTEXT

Introduction: De/locating Qingtianese transnational families

1. Chinese Migration to Spain

2. The Ethnographic Journey

PART II: CARE CIRCULATION IN QINGTIANESE TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES

Introduction: The Chinese family

3. Multi-generational Care Strategies

4. The Multi-dimensionality of Care

5. Settings of Family Solidarity and Reciprocity

6. Who Cares?

PART III: CHILDREN'S LIFE PATHS IN QINGTIANESE TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES

Introduction

8. The Early Years

9. Growing Bodies and Growing Responsibilities

10. The Grown-ups

Conclusions

Epilogue: The Pandemic Times

Biography

Laura Lamas-Abraira is a Researcher at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and at the InterAsia research group (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona). She has graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology and holds an international PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies. Her research interests include Chinese migration, family, care and interculturalism.

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