Too sick to move: distant 'crisis' care in transnational families
Too sick to move: distant 'crisis' care in transnational families
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DOI：
10.1080/03906701.2014.954328
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发表时间：
2014-01-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Baldassar, Loretta
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作者：
Baldassar, Loretta
本文探讨了跨国家庭中的急性和慢性疾病、死亡和垂死危机。这些是家庭生活过程中的阶段，需要身体上的共同在场，为生病的家庭成员提供实际护理和亲密的情感支持。这是一个遥远的亲戚觉得他们需要“在那里”的时候，包括他们自己的幸福感。这一“危机”时期（在人类学意义上）使跨国家庭团聚的所有障碍变得显而易见，这些障碍往往隐藏在“常规”形式的远程护理足够的时期。特别相关的是国家边界产生的宏观因素和界定这些因素的政策，包括那些关于就业、旅行、签证、保健和老年护理的规定。正是在这些家庭生活的危机阶段，民族国家结构可以限制个人的机构和权利，使跨国结构和政策的需求日益明显。问题是家庭和个人的微观层面的反应基本上是无形的（在政策意义上），但越来越常见，这是“危机远程护理”的特点，其特点是迫切需要访问和加强使用信通技术。本文探讨了生活在澳大利亚的移民谁是试图照顾严重不适的家人在国外的经验。
This paper examines the crisis of acute and chronic illness, death, and dying in transnational families. These are the stages in the family life-course when physical copresence is required to deliver hands-on care and intimate emotional support for the sick family member. It is a time when distant kin feel they need 'to be there', including for their own sense of well-being. This period of 'crisis' (in the anthropological sense) makes visible all of the impediments to transnational family caregiving that often remain hidden during those periods when 'routine' forms of distant care are adequate. Of particular relevance are the macro-level factors generated by national borders and the policies that define them, including those that govern employment, travel, visa, health, and aged care provisions. It is in these family life phases of crisis that nation-state structures can work to constrain individual agency and rights, making compellingly evident the growing need for transnational structures and policy. At issue are the largely invisible ( in a policy sense) but increasingly common micro-level responses of family and individuals that characterize 'crisis distant care', which are characterized by the urgent need to visit and to intensify use of ICTs. The paper examines the experiences of migrants living in Australia who are trying to care for acutely unwell family members abroad.