ABSTRACT
This book explores the phenomenon of familyhood across borders, examining the experience of translocal familyhood and the manner in which lifelines in and between countries are formed when individual family members spend long periods away from home. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it considers the emotions, social relations, materialities and discourses that occur within family lives between Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, Russia and Sweden. With attention to the ways in which gender, generation, class and geography create and reinforce inequalities, strengths and vulnerabilities within and between families, it combines ethnographic, descriptive work with shorter photography-based chapters in order to allow textual and visual methods to complement one another. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and anthropology with interests in migration, transnationalism and the sociology of the family.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|47 pages
Everyday Emotions
chapter 2|20 pages
Overcoming the Burden of Distance
chapter 3|18 pages
Place Attachment and Translocal Ties
chapter Commentary on Chapters 2 and 3|7 pages
Translocal Lifelines through the Lens of Emotion
part Section II|46 pages
Gender and Inequality
chapter Commentary on Chapters 4 and 5|7 pages
Feeling Translocalism
part Section III|55 pages
Materialities
chapter 7|22 pages
Claiming Translocal Place among Romanian Roma Migrants in Helsinki
part Section IV|47 pages
Family Values and Integration