Children and power in mexican transnational families
Children and power in mexican transnational families
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00430.x
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发表时间：
2007-11-01
影响因子：
6
通讯作者：
Dreby, Joanna
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作者：
Dreby, Joanna
今天，许多家庭发现，他们无法通过生活在同一屋檐下来实现维持家庭的目标。有些成员在国际上移徙。本文讨论了跨国生活方式对移民父母留下的儿童的影响。使用民族志实地考察和采访了141名墨西哥跨国家庭的成员，我探讨了留守儿童对父母移民的反应。我专注于墨西哥儿童如何表现出竞争的压力，他们觉得周围的父母的迁移，从而塑造家庭的迁移模式。文章表明，儿童可能体验到权力，尽管在不同年龄以不同的方式，但同时作为受抚养人和在家庭的社会经济地位方面处于不利地位。
Today, many families find that they are unable to fulfill the goal of maintaining a household by living together under the same roof. Some members migrate internationally. This article addresses the consequences of a transnational lifestyle for children who are left behind by migrant parents. Using ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with a total of 141 members of Mexican transnational families, I explore how children who are left behind react to parents' migrations. I focus on how Mexican children manifest the competing pressures they feel surrounding parents' migrations and consequently shape family migration patterns. The article shows that children may experience power, albeit in different ways at different ages, while simultaneously being disadvantaged as dependents and in terms of their families' socioeconomic status.