Grandparenting left-behind children in Javanese Migrant-sending villages: Trigenerational care circuits and the negotiation of care

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103767

Bittiandra Chand Somaiah , Brenda S.A. Yeoh

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Abstract

Parental labour migration requires recalibrations of care arrangements within the left-behind family. Existing studies of left-behind families, however, have largely concentrated on parental rather than grandparental caregiving of grandchildren. We argue that grandparents are pivotal to care work and changing family formations within migrant-sending villages. Grandparents provide supplementary care, substitutive care and even reconstitutive care, depending on the migration and marital status of the parents. The paper emphasizes the often unilateral care-contracts between grandparents and migrant parents, drawing on material primarily from the qualitative interviews of grandparent carers of left-behind children, and the grandchildren themselves. By considering a variety of family contexts in flux as a result of parental migration (mother, father or both parents) and marital dissolution amidst migration, we examine family situations holistically by taking into account the different modes of care provided by grandparents (occasionally in tandem with aunts) within changing care contexts.

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爪哇移民村留守儿童的祖父母抚养:三代关怀回路与关怀谈判

父母劳动迁移需要重新调整留守家庭内的照料安排。然而，现有的关于留守家庭的研究主要集中在父母而不是祖父母对孙辈的照顾上。我们认为，祖父母在移民村庄的照料工作和改变家庭结构方面起着关键作用。根据父母的迁移和婚姻状况，祖父母提供补充照顾、替代照顾，甚至是重建照顾。本文主要从对留守儿童的祖父母和孙辈的定性访谈中提取材料，强调了祖父母和流动父母之间往往是单方面的照顾契约。通过考虑由于父母迁移(母亲，父亲或父母双方)和移民中的婚姻破裂而不断变化的各种家庭背景，我们通过考虑祖父母在不断变化的护理环境中提供的不同护理模式(偶尔与阿姨一起)来全面检查家庭情况。

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Geoforum GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

7.30

自引率

5.70%

发文量

201

期刊介绍： Geoforum is an international, inter-disciplinary journal, global in outlook, and integrative in approach. The broad focus of Geoforum is the organisation of economic, political, social and environmental systems through space and over time. Areas of study range from the analysis of the global political economy and environment, through national systems of regulation and governance, to urban and regional development, local economic and urban planning and resources management. The journal also includes a Critical Review section which features critical assessments of research in all the above areas.