Open AccessTransnational Displays of Parenting and Caring For Elderly Parents
Author(s) -
Irena Juozeliūnienė,
Gintė Martinkėnė,
Irma BudginaitėMačkinė
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vilnius university open series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2669-0535
DOI - 10.15388/os.2020.7
Subject(s) - lithuanian , set (abstract data type) , finch , psychology , developmental psychology , child care , sociology , gender studies , medicine , nursing , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , biology , programming language
This chapter is set up to incorporate Finch’s idea of ‘display’ to examine how migrant parents, adult migrant children, and close significant persons perform a set of actions to convey to each other and the society at large that these are family-doing activities. The authors sought to demonstrate that the concept of ‘display’ could be applied to analyze transnational practices of parenting and caring for elderly parents in a quantitative way. The chapter draws on the data from a quotabased survey (N = 304) of three types of transnational families: mother-away and father-away with under-aged children living in Lithuania and adult child-away with elderly parents needing care living in Lithuania. The study was carried out in August 2018 as part of the research project ‘Global Migration and Lithuanian Family: Family Practices, Circulation of Care, and the Return Strategies’.