CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Badea, Camelia Virginia |
|---|---|
| Title | Dynamics and decision-making processes in transnational families: home-making and return of Romanian labor migrants |
| Summary | Historically women migrants have been associated with immobility and passivity regarding the migration project. As women migrants became more visible, they also gained more power in making plans and decisions, preferring oftentimes to take root at destination, thus contesting and challenging some of the existing norms on home-making through specific gender activities. Frequently, as pointed in some of the presented case studies, their quasi-empowering migration experiences changed the dynamics within their families, sometimes as much as structural factors. In order to bring out the dynamics of family life, I use home-making and return as analytical tools to highlight migrants’ struggles to maintain a coherent and convenient migration project for all. Using a transnational perspective on migration, I investigate the gendered and aged dynamics between members of transnational families to show that besides women, children and other rooted family members get involved in decisions that represent more than just fulfilling household chores. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted among Romanian labor migrants in Sperieteni (Romania) and Zaragoza (Spain) my research explores the decision-making process in four familial migration projects in which members are multifariously involved. To evince the flexibility and inconsistency of transnational family life I conclude with a discussion on the coherence of the migration project as a non-teleological experience that uncover the resilient mechanisms members employ to face challenges. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram Prem Kumar, Dafinger Andreas |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/badea_camelia.pdf |
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