Parenting and Migration in Academic Publications: What is seen to be ‘Troubling’?

In this chapter the authors examine how parenting in migration context is portrayed in the academic discourse in Lithuania. The authors reveal the depictions of migration-induced child caring practices, based on the results of analysis of academic publications (2004–2017) carried out from January to...

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Published inVilnius University open series (Online) no. 3; pp. 78 - 97
Main Authors Juozeliūnienė, Irena, Bielevičiūtė, Indrė, Budginaitė-Mačkinė, Irma
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vilnius University Press 09.09.2020
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academic discourse on migrant families
Representation of parenting in migration
troubling parenting
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Summary:In this chapter the authors examine how parenting in migration context is portrayed in the academic discourse in Lithuania. The authors reveal the depictions of migration-induced child caring practices, based on the results of analysis of academic publications (2004–2017) carried out from January to March 2018 as part of the sub-study of the research project ‘Global Migration and Lithuanian Family: Family Practices, Circulation of Care, and the Return Strategies’. The chapter focus on the portrayal of parenting within the host country, after return from emigration and in transnational family settings. The analysis reveals how value judgements about family life rooted in the low mobility discourse are reproduced in academic publications on family and migration and lead the researchers to portray parenting in migration as ‘troubling’.
ISSN:2669-0535
2669-0535
DOI:10.15388/OS.2020.5