Rural parents with urban children: Social and economic implications of migration for the rural elderly in Thailand
Rural parents with urban children: Social and economic implications of migration for the rural elderly in Thailand
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DOI：
10.1002/psp.436
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发表时间：
2007-05-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Saengtienchai, Chanpen
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作者：
Knodel, John;Saengtienchai, Chanpen
本研究探讨的社会和经济后果的成年子女迁移到城市地区的农村父母在泰国。报告注意到这种移徙发生的情况，包括父母在这一过程中发挥的作用，以及移徙对父母的影响得到考虑的程度。分析主要依赖于2004年进行的开放式访谈，在四个专门选择的农村社区，研究十年前与老年父母与流动儿童。我们的研究结果表明，儿童迁移到城市地区的积极贡献，他们的老年父母谁留在农村地区的物质福利。通信技术变革的出现和交通的改善削弱了移民对社会支持（从保持联系和探访的角度定义）的负面影响。电话联系，特别是通过移动的电话联系，现在很普遍，与十年前的情况形成了鲜明的对比，当时这种联系非常罕见。在泰国，农村父母与其分散在各地的成年子女之间的关系发生了很大变化，这与“改良大家庭”的概念十分一致，这一观点在讨论工业化和后工业社会中的老年父母时已很常见，但很少适用于发展中国家老年父母的情况。版权所有（c）2006约翰威利父子有限公司。
The present study explores the social and economic consequences of the migration of adult children to urban areas for rural parents in Thailand. Attention is given to the circumstances under which such migration takes place, including the role parents play in the process and the extent to which the implications of migration for the parents are taken into consideration. The analysis relies primarily on open-ended interviews conducted in 2004 with older age parents with migrant children in four purposely selected rural communities that were studied ten years earlier. Our findings suggest that migration of children to urban areas contributes positively to the material well-being of their elderly parents who remain in rural areas. Negative impacts of migration on social support, defined in terms of maintaining contact and visits, have been attenuated by the advent of technological changes in communication and also by improvements in transportation. Phone contact, especially through mobile phones, is now pervasive, in sharp contrast to the situation ten years earlier when it was extremely rare. Much of the change in Thailand in terms of the relationships between rural parents and their geographically dispersed adult children is quite consistent with the concept of the 'modified extended family', a perspective that has become common in discussions regarding elderly parents in industrial and post-industrial societies but rarely applied to the situation of elderly parents in developing country settings. Copyright (c) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.