Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041723
- eISBN:
- 9780252050398
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041723.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
Chapter two examines care work and intimacy between transnational family members shaped by the advancement in communication technologies, specifically, Skype and Facebook. New care providers, ...
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Chapter two examines care work and intimacy between transnational family members shaped by the advancement in communication technologies, specifically, Skype and Facebook. New care providers, patterns of care work and forms of care emerge through these particular technological platforms. Although, technology brings new possibilities of supporting relationships over long distances, it also sometimes hinders relationships through its “all seeing eye” character. Transnational family members are impressive in their ability to stay connected through technology and yet, these strategies are only possible in fact because they are necessary in a world where families are forced to be separated to sustain their livelihoods. The chapter examines multidirectional care through technology’s role in transforming the relationships in transnational families and, importantly, assessing that possibilities and challenges of this development of care under the neoliberal condition they are transformed.Less
Chapter two examines care work and intimacy between transnational family members shaped by the advancement in communication technologies, specifically, Skype and Facebook. New care providers, patterns of care work and forms of care emerge through these particular technological platforms. Although, technology brings new possibilities of supporting relationships over long distances, it also sometimes hinders relationships through its “all seeing eye” character. Transnational family members are impressive in their ability to stay connected through technology and yet, these strategies are only possible in fact because they are necessary in a world where families are forced to be separated to sustain their livelihoods. The chapter examines multidirectional care through technology’s role in transforming the relationships in transnational families and, importantly, assessing that possibilities and challenges of this development of care under the neoliberal condition they are transformed.
Ulla D. Berg
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479803460
- eISBN:
- 9781479863778
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479803460.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This book illuminates how transnational communicative practices and forms of exchange produce new forms of kinship and social relations, as well as new forms of self-presentation and belonging for ...
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This book illuminates how transnational communicative practices and forms of exchange produce new forms of kinship and social relations, as well as new forms of self-presentation and belonging for global labor migrants. It shows how migrants create new portrayals of themselves which work both to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to control the images they share of themselves with others back home. Migrant videos, for example, which document migrants' lives for family back home, are often sanitized to avoid causing worry. This book examines the conditions under which racialized Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands of Peru to migrate to the United States, how they fare, and what constrains their movement and their attempts to maintain meaningful social relations across borders. By exploring the ways in which migration is mediated between the Peruvian Andes and the United States—by documents, money, and images and objects in circulation—this book makes a major contribution to the documentation and theorization of the role of technology in fostering new forms of migrant sociality and subjectivity. In its focus on the forms of sociality and belonging that these mediations enable, the book adds to key anthropological debates about affect, subjectivity, and sociality in today's mobile world. It also makes significant contributions to studies of inequality in Latin America, showcasing the intersection of transnational mobility with structures and processes of exclusion in both national and global contexts.Less
This book illuminates how transnational communicative practices and forms of exchange produce new forms of kinship and social relations, as well as new forms of self-presentation and belonging for global labor migrants. It shows how migrants create new portrayals of themselves which work both to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to control the images they share of themselves with others back home. Migrant videos, for example, which document migrants' lives for family back home, are often sanitized to avoid causing worry. This book examines the conditions under which racialized Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands of Peru to migrate to the United States, how they fare, and what constrains their movement and their attempts to maintain meaningful social relations across borders. By exploring the ways in which migration is mediated between the Peruvian Andes and the United States—by documents, money, and images and objects in circulation—this book makes a major contribution to the documentation and theorization of the role of technology in fostering new forms of migrant sociality and subjectivity. In its focus on the forms of sociality and belonging that these mediations enable, the book adds to key anthropological debates about affect, subjectivity, and sociality in today's mobile world. It also makes significant contributions to studies of inequality in Latin America, showcasing the intersection of transnational mobility with structures and processes of exclusion in both national and global contexts.
Abdalla Uba Adamu
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748635221
- eISBN:
- 9780748653010
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748635221.003.0015
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, African Studies
The rapidly changing pattern of transnational communication and the subsequent emergence of the new media and information revolution are often assumed to have a powerful impact on identities and ...
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The rapidly changing pattern of transnational communication and the subsequent emergence of the new media and information revolution are often assumed to have a powerful impact on identities and cultures worldwide; but there is little agreement about how information flows actually interact with social processes, or even about methods for studying this interaction. Cultural and territorial boundaries have become much less coterminous, and new transnational identities are being created as a result of improved international travel and information technologies that no government can control. However, this does not mean the end for older identities that may also be strengthened by the opportunities provided by the communications revolution. It is within this context that the emergence of Muslim Hausa video films and their relation to Muslim Hausa cultural identity can be profitably analysed.Less
The rapidly changing pattern of transnational communication and the subsequent emergence of the new media and information revolution are often assumed to have a powerful impact on identities and cultures worldwide; but there is little agreement about how information flows actually interact with social processes, or even about methods for studying this interaction. Cultural and territorial boundaries have become much less coterminous, and new transnational identities are being created as a result of improved international travel and information technologies that no government can control. However, this does not mean the end for older identities that may also be strengthened by the opportunities provided by the communications revolution. It is within this context that the emergence of Muslim Hausa video films and their relation to Muslim Hausa cultural identity can be profitably analysed.
Brian Larkin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226185064
- eISBN:
- 9780226185088
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226185088.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Empire, the projection of political power across space, is a function of circulation. Imperial control organizes diverse territories into a hierarchical system that “resonates together” by placing ...
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Empire, the projection of political power across space, is a function of circulation. Imperial control organizes diverse territories into a hierarchical system that “resonates together” by placing into motion a ceaseless movement of persons, laws, administrative practices, commodities, texts, images, and religious orders. Understanding Empire depends on comprehending the diversity of these nodes of operation, while keeping in mind the system as a totality. The emergence of cinema represented the first great transnational communications structure dominated by the United States, and the anxious reaction it generated in the British Empire tells us much about shifts in imperial power and the nature of empires as circulatory systems. Cinema occupied a privileged role in the transformation of capital in the twentieth century and of the place of the United States in this new economy. This transformation was part of the emergence of a commodity culture in which forms of spectacle and representation took on economic as well as cultural significance. Cinema collapsed the distance between the metropolitan world and the colonial. The richness of cinema provided a visceral and profuse presentation of metropolitan Western life that bore a homology to the exhibition of colonial cultures in world's fairs.Less
Empire, the projection of political power across space, is a function of circulation. Imperial control organizes diverse territories into a hierarchical system that “resonates together” by placing into motion a ceaseless movement of persons, laws, administrative practices, commodities, texts, images, and religious orders. Understanding Empire depends on comprehending the diversity of these nodes of operation, while keeping in mind the system as a totality. The emergence of cinema represented the first great transnational communications structure dominated by the United States, and the anxious reaction it generated in the British Empire tells us much about shifts in imperial power and the nature of empires as circulatory systems. Cinema occupied a privileged role in the transformation of capital in the twentieth century and of the place of the United States in this new economy. This transformation was part of the emergence of a commodity culture in which forms of spectacle and representation took on economic as well as cultural significance. Cinema collapsed the distance between the metropolitan world and the colonial. The richness of cinema provided a visceral and profuse presentation of metropolitan Western life that bore a homology to the exhibition of colonial cultures in world's fairs.
