Transnational families and the provision of moral and emotional support: The relationship between truth and distance
Transnational families and the provision of moral and emotional support: The relationship between truth and distance
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DOI：
10.1080/10702890701578423
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发表时间：
2007-07-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Baldassar, Loretta
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作者：
Baldassar, Loretta
本文是一个民族志分析跨国家庭之间的联系成年移民儿童生活在澳大利亚和他们的亲属在意大利，从20世纪50年代到现在。这篇文章的一个关键焦点是跨越距离的情感纽带的持久性。借鉴芬奇和梅森的研究，关系和霍克希尔德的工作情绪劳动，它探讨了积极的经验，以及与跨国交换的道德和情感支持的紧张局势。研究结果证实了跨距离情感纽带的持久性，从而挑战了关于全球化进程导致跨地区家庭内部纽带下降的论点。新的通信技术在维持这些债券中发挥的作用，提供了一个可能的解释，以说明跨国情感互动的频率随着时间的推移明显增加。这篇文章还呼吁进一步研究身体的共同存在或不存在对距离上的情感互动的影响。
This article is an ethnographic analysis of transnational family links between adult migrant children living in Australia and their kin in Italy, front the 1950s to the present. A key focus of the article is the persistence of bonds of emotion across distance. Drawing on Finch and Mason's research on caregiving relationships and Hochschild's work on emotional labour, it explores both the positive experiences as well as the tensions associated with the transnational exchange of moral and emotional support. The findings confirm the perseverance of bonds of emotion across distance and thus challenge arguments about the declining bonds within translocal families as a result of globalising processes. The role that new communication technologies play in sustaining these bonds is offered as a possible explanation to account for the apparent increase in the frequency of transnational emotional interaction over time. The article also calls for further work on the influence of physical co-presence or absence on emotional interaction over distance.