‘Global Householding’ in Mixed Families: The Case of Thai Migrant Women in Belgium
The global formation and simultaneous maintenance of households in different societies, known as ‘global householding’ (Douglas 2010), has been widely documented in the study of labour migration but remains understudied in the context of marriage migration. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Thai marriage migrant women in Belgium, this chapter will highlight the conflicting dimensions of global householding in ethnically mixed families, which involves simultaneously ‘doing family’ ‘here’ (with one’s nuclear family) and ‘there’ (with one’s extended families). Data analys... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | bookPart |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Schlagwörter: | transnational families / CIRFASE / global householding / migration / Asia / gender |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28552723 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/192922 |