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The research team presented preliminary findings from our research project \u201c<\/span>Transnational Families in Europe: Care, Inequalities and Wellbeing\u201d<\/span><\/a> at the 6<\/span>th<\/span> Transforming Care Conference held in Sheffield (UK) in June 2023. The project team participated in two sessions of this conference focused on the theme of \u201c<\/span>Boundaries, Transitions and Crisis Contexts<\/span><\/a>\u201d: 1) a thematic panel titled<\/span> \u201cThe Care-Migration system nexus: De-centring \u2018Global North\u2019 perspectives\u201d; and 2) a symposium on transnational families\u2019 care needs and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thematic panel: \u201cThe Care-Migration system nexus: De-centring \u2018Global North\u2019 perspectives\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Care-Migration system nexus: De-centring \u2018Global North\u2019 perspectives\u201d thematic panel, the project team contributed two papers drawing from the emerging research findings in France and Spain, and Sweden and the UK. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Polina Palash (Aix-Marseille University) and Andrea Souto Garc\u00eda (University of A Coru\u00f1a) presented a paper entitled \u201cCare, wellbeing and inequalities in transnational families: a comparative perspective from France and Spain\u201d co-authored with Virginie Baby-Collin (Aix-Marseille University) and Laura Oso (University of A Coru\u00f1a). Drawing from rich and in-depth multi-sited ethnographic work with families spread across France, Spain and Colombia, the paper explored the role of care in the genesis, maintenance and dissolution of transnational familyhood. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rosa Mas Giralt (University of Leeds) and Katarina Mozeti\u010d (Malm\u00f6 University) presented a paper co-authored with Ruth Evans (University of Reading) and Brigitte Suter (Malm\u00f6 University) focusing on young people as caregivers in Sweden and the UK. The paper foregrounded the salient caregiving roles that children and young people can play in the resource environment of transnational families; roles that have often been neglected in transnational families\u2019 research. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The panel organisers, Majella Kilkey and Loretta Baldassar, had invited contributions that helped to interrogate dominant conceptualisations in transnational families\u2019 scholarship which tend to be shaped by global North perspectives. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The questions and discussion which followed the presentations highlighted how the Sweden and UK paper had challenged views on caregiving in childhood and young adulthood as a \u2018burden\u2019 and purely detrimental for young carers. Instead, it highlighted its positive aspects as part of daily life and family solidarity common in many countries of the majority world. The Spain and France contribution helped to emphasise the points of view of transnational family members in countries of origin and the reciprocal nature of caregiving, challenging narratives which prioritise unidirectional understandings of sending societies as receivers of financial and other care.<\/span><\/p>\n

A symposium on transnational families\u2019 care needs and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Symposium session organised by the project team aimed at considering emerging findings on how the COVID-19 crisis and related emergency measures implemented to combat the pandemic has impacted both proximate and distant\u2019 care practices and arrangements between younger, middle and older generations of transnational families in France, Spain, Sweden and the UK. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Polina Palash and Andrea Souto Garc\u00eda presenting in the thematic panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The session had an engaged audience and benefited from the insightful critical discussion provided by Erika Kispeter (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The contributions and Q&A that followed highlighted the ways in which, in all project countries, recent migrants and those with precarious legal statuses, were more likely to be excluded (purposedly or due to linguistic and digital barriers, or type of jobs\/work arrangements) from the policy measures implemented to cushion the loss of income and employment, and to face barriers in accessing health and other services. <\/span><\/p>\n

Together with the travel restrictions which disrupted care mobilities, these exclusionary dynamics posed significant challenges for transnational family members to continue providing care locally or cross-borders, and to secure or maintain the legal status of different family members. They also had detrimental impacts on the emotional and psychological wellbeing of different generations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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