ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how care is exchanged in Qingtianese transnational families. In line with Baldassar and Merla’s (2014) findings, a quick review of the care histories of the families in the sample reveals that care may be exchanged through physical copresence, at a distance, and through proxy caring practices: the delegation of in-person support to others. It also reveals that often, far from being exclusive, these are complementary and depend upon the different and changing circumstances in which families find themselves. This chapter provides a multigenerational approach to the most common care arrangements and care exchanges in these families (including satellite babies, transnational grandparenting, informal child circulation practices….) from the perspective of how those are performed using the aforementioned strategies and how the local practices and the Chinese culture system are reinterpreted in the transnational context.
