Hoang Lan Anh, Yeoh Brenda S A, Wattie Anna Marie
School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
Geoforum. 2012 Jun;43(4):733-740. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.12.006.
Recent increases in female labour migration in and from Asia have triggered a surge of interest in how the absence of the mother and wife for extended periods of time affects the left-behind family, particularly children, in labour-sending countries. While migration studies in the region have shown that the extended family, especially female relatives, is often called on for support in childcare during the mother's absence it is not yet clear how childcare arrangements are made. Drawing on in-depth interviews with non-parent carers of left-behind children in Indonesia and Vietnam, the paper aims to unveil complexities and nuances around care in the context of transnational labour migration. In so doing it draws attention to the enduring influence of social norms on the organisation of family life when women are increasingly drawn into the global labour market. By contrasting a predominantly patrilineal East Asian family structure in Vietnam with what is often understood as a bilateral South-East Asian family structure in Indonesia, the paper seeks to provide interesting comparative insights into the adaptive strategies that the transnational family pursues in order to cope with the reproductive vacuum left behind by the migrant mother.
近年来，亚洲内外女性劳务移民数量的增加引发了人们对以下问题的浓厚兴趣：母亲和妻子长期缺席会如何影响劳务输出国的留守家庭，尤其是孩子。尽管该地区的移民研究表明，在母亲缺席期间，大家庭，尤其是女性亲属，常常会被请求提供育儿方面的支持，但目前尚不清楚育儿安排是如何做出的。本文基于对印度尼西亚和越南留守儿童的非父母照料者的深入访谈，旨在揭示跨国劳务移民背景下照料方面的复杂性和细微差别。在此过程中，本文提请人们注意，当女性越来越多地被纳入全球劳动力市场时，社会规范对家庭生活组织的持久影响。通过将越南以父系为主的东亚家庭结构与印度尼西亚通常被认为的双边东南亚家庭结构进行对比，本文力图就跨国家庭为应对移民母亲留下的生育真空而采取的适应策略提供有趣的比较性见解。
