Descrição
Autores: Tânia Tonhati
Sinopse:
This book explores how Brazilian migrant women 'do family' with their family members in Brazil. Of particular importance is their practice of family rituals and the giving of ritualist features to family practices to create and recreate a sense of familyhood, even while living at a distance for an extended period of time. The book, then, dialogues with transnational family studies that consider the significance and continuity of family relationships in the process of migration. My investigation is framed by a qualitative methodological framework that includes a multi-sited ethnography at participant houses, biographical interviews and diaries. Fieldwork was carried out in the UK and in Brazil over 21 months, including thirty biographical interviews at the participants' houses in both locations, and seven daily diaries, reporting the Brazilian women migrants' daily interaction with their family members in Brazil. My analysis considers the process of ritualization of family life and the creation and recreation of family (in daily, weekly, monthly or annual events, or during the life-course). I show that ritualizing as a family involves a set of activities heavily encoded with symbolic and affective meanings as well as some constraints which can influence the capacity and opportunity to practise them. I conclude that the process of ritualization of family practices done by the Brazilian transnational families in this study was especially important for them, in order to (re)constitute their sense of familyhood at a distance.
Editora:Editora CRV
ISBN:ISBN: 9788544432341
DOI:10.24824/978854443234.1
Ano de edição:2019
Número de páginas:282
Formato:16x23
Compre a versão E-book nos principais marketplaces
Assunto:
T663
Tonhati, Tânia
Transnational families, Migration and Brazilian family practices Tânia Tonhati –
Curitiba CRV, 2019
282 p
Bibliography
ISBN 978-85-444-3234-1
DOI 10248249788544432341
1 International migration 2 Transnational families 3 Family practices 4 Brazilian
Migration I Tittle II Series
CDU 0547(81) CDD 30489812
PRESENTATION
CHAPTER
BRAZILIAN MIGRATION AND FAMILY
Framing Brazilian migration
Framing Brazilians in the UK
Framing Brazilian women in the UK
Framing the Brazilian family
The objectives of this book
Outline of the chapters
CHAPTER
THE TRANSNATIONAL FAMILY migration and family practices
Migration studies the transnational approach
and transnational families
Feminist migration studies and transnational families
Family studies and transnational families
The care analytical approach to the transnational family
Rituals, ritualization and family rituals
CHAPTER
RESEARCHING THE TRANSNATIONAL FAMILY
a methodological framework
Researching transnational families
The methodological pathway
Fieldwork challenges
Research ethics and the co-production research process
CHAPTER
DOING FAMILY ON ‘SMALL-DAYS’
The writing and exchange of letters
Talking on the telephone
Talking on Skype the entry of new communications
technologies into the Brazilian migrant women’s
transnational family life
Tânia Tonhati - indd CHAPTER
DOING ANNUAL FAMILY RITUALS
Difficulties in ‘going home’ for birthdays and Christmas
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear…
Merry Christmas!! Christmas is ‘family’
Christmas and online ‘Secret Santa’
CHAPTER
DOING LIFE-CYCLE FAMILY RITUALS
Weddings as family rituals
Birth of a child as a family ritual
The death of a loved one the last farewell
CHAPTER
RITUALIZING AS FAMILY TRANSNATIONALLY
Brazilian transnational family rituals
BIBLIOGRAPHY
