Transnational families in Lithuania: multi-dimensionality of social relationships and their reorganization
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Migracija; Šeima; Socialiniai ryšiai; Migration; Family; Social relationships.
ENThis chapter examines the ways in which the experience of migration re-defines and re-organizes the relationships of transnational families in Lithuania. It employs four of C. Smart’s concepts to analyze personal life—‘imaginary’, ‘embeddedness’, ‘memory’, and ‘relationality’, and its primary source is a mixed method research study carried out between 2012 and 2015 that was financed by the Research Council of Lithuania. The authors draw on the relational perspective, and focus on how transnational family relations exist in one’s imagination, how the ‘embeddedness’ within family and kinship networks governs the ways transnational support and family memory communication is maintained, and, how living across borders may influence the renegotiation of role-specific commitments and reshape the identities of family members. [link.springer.com]
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- Siblings as overlooked potential for care and support across households and borders / Irma Budginaitė‐Mačkinė, Irena Juozeliūnienė. Social inclusion (Lisboa). 2023, vol. 11, iss. 1, p. 234-245.
- Transnational displays of parenting and caring for elderly parents / Irena Juozeliūnienė, Gintė Martinkėnė and Irma Budginaitė-Mačkinė. Making Lithuanian families across borders: conceptual frames and empirical evidence / edited by Irena Juozeliūnienė and Julie Seymour. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2020. P. 127-154.
