Narratives of the children left behind: Home and identity in globalised Caribbean families
Narratives of the children left behind: Home and identity in globalised Caribbean families
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DOI：
10.1080/1369183x.1999.9976685
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发表时间：
1999-04
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
K. Olwig
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作者：
K. Olwig
加勒比地区人口流动的悠久历史导致了全球化家庭的建立，其中分散的关系网络将移民和他们留下的亲属联系在一起，形成连贯的社会领域。移徙研究表明，移徙者往往把子女留在亲戚身边，这些子女构成了社会领域的关键点。然而，很少有人关注在这些全球家庭网络中长大的孩子。这篇文章考察了尼维斯背风岛的四个年轻人的生活故事，他们小时候被移民父母留下和祖父母住在一起。分析的目的是阐明儿童在以全球关系为基础的家庭环境中成长的经历，就生活中最基本的社会、经济和情感方面而言。这项研究还可能导致对与……有关的文化价值的更广泛的理解。
Abstract The long history of population movements in the Caribbean has led to the establishment of globalised families in which diffuse networks of relationships tie migrants and the relatives they leave behind into coherent social fields. Migration studies have documented that migrants often leave children behind with relatives, and that these children constitute pivotal points in the social fields. Yet there has been little focus on the children who grow up in these global family networks. This article examines four life stories related by young people from the Leeward Island of Nevis who were left behind by their migrant parents to live with their grandparents when they were small children. The aim of the analysis is to elucidate how children experience growing up in a home environment which is based on global relations as far as the most fundamental social, economic and emotional aspects of life are concerned. This study may also lead to a broader understanding of the cultural values associated with a...