The transnational work of kinship and caring: Bengali–British marriages in historical perspective
The transnational work of kinship and caring: Bengali–British marriages in historical perspective
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亲属关系和关怀的跨国工作：历史视角下的孟加拉-英国婚姻
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2006
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K. Gardner
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K. Gardner
在这篇文章中，基于正在进行的研究，自20世纪80年代中期以来在孟加拉国和实地工作在伦敦在20世纪90年代末，我采取了历史的方法来分析跨国Sylheti婚姻。通过展示自世纪中期以来这些婚姻的形式是如何变化的，我认为跨国移民本身就是高度流动的。妻子在维持跨国联系方面的作用是该账户的核心。我特别关注的是20世纪50年代和60年代来到英国的“第一代”移民男性的妻子，他们的家庭在20世纪80年代普遍在英国团聚。通过描述这些妻子在锡耶特和伦敦的家庭和照顾工作，我证明了，而不是“依赖”他们的移民丈夫，妇女一直是中央的成功移民家庭。然而，跨国联系的回报是有代价的--与亲人长期分离。孤立和孤独是这些早期女性经历的标志。
In this article, based on ongoing research carried out in Bangladesh since the mid-1980s and field-work in London in the late 1990s, I take a historical approach to the analysis of transnational Sylheti marriages. By showing how the form of these marriages has changed since the mid-twentieth century, I argue that transnational migration is itself highly fluid. The role of wives in maintaining transnational links is central to the account. I focus in particular on the wives of ‘first-generation’ migrant men who came to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, and whose families were generally reunited in Britain by the 1980s. By describing the household and caring work of these wives both in Sylhet and London, I demonstrate that rather than being ‘dependants’ of their migrant husbands, women have been central to the success of migrant households. The rewards of transnational connectedness have, however, come at a cost — long-term separation from loved ones. Isolation and loneliness have been hallmarks of the experiences of these earlier generations of women.