Nedelcu Mihaela
Institute of Sociology, University of Neuchâtel, Faubourg de l'Hôpital 27, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Eur J Ageing. 2017 Jun 30;14(4):375-383. doi: 10.1007/s10433-017-0436-1. eCollection 2017 Dec.
Taking transnational families of Romanian migrants in Canada and Switzerland as a case in point, this paper accounts for the emergence of new patterns of "grandparenting" and "doing family" practices in the digital age, based on ICTs-mediated co-presence. It shows that migrants' parents are able to acquire manifold technological skills in order to cope with distance and separation and to improve the quality of their interaction and relationships with children and grandchildren living abroad. Ordinary co-presence routines within polymedia environments allow grandparents to take on their role as childcare providers across borders and develop new transnational lifestyles. Thus, despite contrasting feelings of well-being and distress that mediated co-presence generates, migrants' parents are able to place themselves as key actors within the transnational family in the digital society and invent new grandparenting practices.
本文以加拿大和瑞士的罗马尼亚移民跨国家庭为例，阐述了在数字时代，基于信息通信技术介导的共同在场，“做祖父母”和“组建家庭”实践的新模式是如何出现的。研究表明，移民的父母能够掌握多种技术技能，以应对距离和分离问题，并改善他们与海外子女及孙辈的互动和关系质量。多媒体环境中的日常共同在场惯例，使祖父母能够承担起跨境照顾孩子的角色，并形成新的跨国生活方式。因此，尽管介导的共同在场会产生幸福与痛苦交织的感受，但移民的父母能够在数字社会的跨国家庭中成为关键角色，并创造新的祖父母角色实践。
