Whitehouse Bruce
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University, 681 Taylor Street Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA.
Glob Netw (Oxf). 2009 Jan;9(1):82-99. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2009.00243.x.
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at two ends of an intra- Africa migration flow (Mali and the Republic of Congo), in this article I examine the role of childrearing practices in the maintenance of transnationalism. I consider different approaches to transnational childrearing by migrant parents and their reasons for adopting them, and delineate three common modes. The most widespread and socially validated approach is to send children home from Congo to their parents' places of origin, where child fostering is widespread, to be raised by relatives for long periods; this approach increases the durability of transnational ties. I use childrearing approaches as an analytical lens to demonstrate the complementarity of multiple forms of domestic organization, mobility and settlement in the intergenerational production and transmission of durable transnational identities. By arguing for greater focus on phenomena such as transnational childrearing, I seek to promote a broader conceptualization of transnationalism.
基于在非洲内部移民流两端（马里和刚果共和国）进行的人种志研究，在本文中，我探讨了育儿方式在维持跨国主义中的作用。我考量了移民父母跨国育儿的不同方式及其采用这些方式的原因，并勾勒出三种常见模式。最普遍且得到社会认可的方式是将孩子从刚果送回其父母的原籍地，在那里寄养很普遍，由亲戚长期抚养；这种方式增强了跨国联系的持久性。我将育儿方式作为一个分析视角，以证明在持久跨国身份的代际产生和传承中，多种形式的家庭组织、流动和定居的互补性。通过主张更多地关注跨国育儿等现象，我力求推动对跨国主义进行更广泛的概念化。
