Afterword: Gender Practices in Transnational Families

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Abstract The first decade of research on transnational families focused primarily on the perspectives of adult migrants, and departed mothers in particular, with the theoretical concept of care at its centre, especially within national and bi-national approaches. The second decade saw a major transformation following the obsolescence of the nuclear family as a unit of research. Methodological approaches have, on the one hand, become more complex (mixed quantitative and qualitative methods, cross-country comparisons, life course perspectives etc.), while children and the elderly have become more visible. These studies have acquired the following key elements: gender, co-presence illustrated through family practices and mobility. Besides offering a short review of the above, this chapter contains a detailed discussion on research addressing Romanian transnational families, in order to illustrate the application of these elements. Then, we offer examples of how research published in the present volume is inscribed with the new research perspective.

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