Détails du document

Impression et sauvegarde

Article de journal

Searching for wages and mothering from afar: The case of Honduran transnational families

Date

2004

Auteurs

Leah Schmalzbauer

Résumé

This article draws on data from a 2-year two-country study that included 157 people to explore the survival strategies of poor Honduran transnational families. I argue that transnational families, defined as those divided between two nation-states who have maintained close ties, depend on a cross-border division of labor in which productive labor occurs in the host country and reproductive labor in the home country. This article bridges the literatures on transnationalism and families. The transnationalism literature tends to focus on macro processes, whereas the literature on families assumes proximity. This research helps fill the gap in both literatures, exposing the ways in which processes of economic globalization have radically altered family form and function.

Journal title

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volume

66

Liens

Secteurs économiques

Agriculture and horticulture workers, General farm workers et General relevance - all sectors

Types de contenu

Statistics on work and life conditions

Groupes cibles

Syndicats

Pertinence géographique

Honduras et National relevance

Sphères d’activité

Études culturelles et ethniques et Études en genre et sexualité

Langues

Anglais