The Role of Care in Developing Capitals among Caribbean Migrant Families

Abstract

In this chapter I explore the potential and possibilities of care and care- giving practices undertaken by Caribbean transnational families for generating, mobilising and validating social and cultural capital. Research on diverse communities of migrant families has long acknowledged how the act of caring binds family members together in international networks of mutual co-operation, support, obligation and reciprocity, which are simultaneously fraught with tensions, conflict and unequal power relations (Zontini, 2006; Ryan, 2007; Baldassar and Merla, 2013).