Transnational Families in Africa
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-864-6 (ISBN)
This is the first book to capture the poignant stories of transnational African families and their use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in mediating their experiences of migration and caring across distance. Transnational Families in Africa analyses the highs and lows of family separation as a result of migration in three contexts: migration within South Africa from rural to urban areas; migration from other African countries into South Africa; and middle-class South Africans emigrating to non-African countries.
The book foregrounds the importance of kinship and support from extended family as well as both the responsibilities migratory family members feel and the experience of loss by those left behind.
Across the diverse circumstances explored in the book are similarities in migrants' strategies for keeping in touch, but also large differences in relation to access to ICTs and ease-of-use that highlight the digital divide and generational gaps. As elsewhere in the world, and in spite of the varied experiences in these kinship circles, the phenomenon that is the transnational family is showing no signs of receding. This book provides a groundbreaking contribution to global debates on migration from the Global South.
Maria C Marchetti-Mercer is a clinical psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Leslie Swartz is a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University. He is the author of How I Lost My Mother (2021). Loretta Baldassar is a professor in Anthropology and Sociology and Director of the Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab at Edith Cowan University, Australia. She is Vice-President of the International Sociological Association Migration Research Committee. Maria C Marchetti-Mercer is a clinical psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Leslie Swartz is a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University. He is the author of How I Lost My Mother (2021). Loretta Baldassar is a professor in Anthropology and Sociology and Director of the Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab at Edith Cowan University, Australia. She is Vice-President of the International Sociological Association Migration Research Committee. Gonzalo Bacigalupe is Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Thembelihle Coka works for a non-governmental organisation in Johannesburg as a bursary support officer. Glory Kabaghe is programme manager (maternal and child health) for the Joyful Motherhood project in Lilongwe, Malawi. Sonto Madonsela is a PhD candidate in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is a research assistant in the School of Human and Community Development. Lactricia Maja is a PhD candidate in Public Health at the University of Cape Town. Risuna Mathebula is a counselling psychologist at Westville Girls High School in Durban. Siko Moyo is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannsesburg. Esther Price works at FVB Psychologists in Missisauga, Ontario, Canada. Daniella Rafaely is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Ajwang' Warria is an associate professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary, Canada
Foreword – Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Acknowledgments
Part 1 Theoretical Context
Chapter 1 Setting the Scene – Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz and Loretta Baldassar
Chapter 2 Methodological Challenges and Opportunities: Our Work, Our Selves – Daniella Rafaely, Loretta Baldassar, Leslie Swartz and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer
Part 2 Participants’ Stories of African Migration, Family Relations and ICTs
Chapter 3 ‘Ah! Do I Know What Data Is, My Child?’ Rural–Urban Migration and the Struggle to Stay in Touch – Lactricia Maja, Risuna Mathebula, Sonto Madonsela and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer
Chapter 4 ‘They Will Be Yearning’: Zimbabwean Migration to South Africa and Keeping the Family Connected – Siko Moyo, Sonto Madonsela and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer
Chapter 5 ‘You Do Not Finish All Stories’: Malawian Families and the Struggle to Stay Connected – Esther Price and Glory Kabaghe
Chapter 6 (Dis)connections: The Paradox of Intergenerational WhatsApp Communication in Transnational Kenyan Families – Ajwang’ Warria
Chapter 7 Making a World of Care: DRC Refugees’ Barber Shop Stories – Thembelihle Coka and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer
Chapter 8 The Luxury of Longing: Experiences of ICTs by South African Emigrants to Non-African Countries and Their Families – Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer and Leslie Swartz
Part 3 Final Considerations
Chapter 9 Analysis of Important Data Emerging from the Study – Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz and Loretta Baldassar
Chapter 10 Looking Ahead: Paradox, Criticality and a Way Forward – Daniella Rafaely, Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz and Loretta Baldassar
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.12.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Johannesburg |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Körper / Sexualität |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-77614-864-9 / 1776148649 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-77614-864-6 / 9781776148646 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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