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Salvadoran Transnational Families, Distance and Eldercare: Understanding Transnational Care Practices in Australia and Belgium

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Studies of intergenerational solidarity and family care tend to assume that care-giving requires geographical proximity (Morgan 1975; Joseph und Hallman 1998). This assumption has been challenged by recent research on transnational families that show that migrants and their kin exchange care across borders and that migration does not automatically jeopardize family solidarity (Baldassar et al. 2007; Baldassar 2007; Finch 1989; Zontini und Reynolds 2007; Al-Ali 2002; Izuhara und Shibata 2002; Merla und Baldassar 2010).

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Notes

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    This research was financed by the EC 6th Framework Programme, Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship (MOIF-CT-2006-039076 Transnational care). The chapter reflects only the author’s views. The European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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    Nacho and Aurora migrated separately and do not know each other.

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    This diagram comes from Merla (forthcoming).

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    Accessible on the World Bank website http://www.worldbank.org/ as at 1 Feb. 2011.

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Merla, L. (2013). Salvadoran Transnational Families, Distance and Eldercare: Understanding Transnational Care Practices in Australia and Belgium. In: Geisen, T., Studer, T., Yildiz, E. (eds) Migration, Familie und soziale Lage. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-94127-1_15

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