Although many factors may motivate a migrant to own a house in their country of origin, significant practical labour is needed to maintain it, as both a material structure intended for shelter and as a symbolic object reflecting attachment to a place of origin. Most research in this area focuses on the significance accorded to transnational houses by their owners and families connoted by the ‘myth of return’, but little attention has been given to how the labour of ownership – constructing, maintaining, overseeing and improving the house – is accomplished. In the light of emerging studies on the care labour that remittance houses require, this article suggests a theoretical framework for studying networks of transnational house maintenance on three dimensions of care – trust, communication, and remittances – observed in networks for transnational family care provisions. A review of literature on transnational home ownership indicates that these dimensions are also present, with some differences in application.

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扩大跨国护理网络：比较照顾家庭与照顾家庭

尽管许多因素可能会促使移民在其原籍国拥有房屋，但维护房屋既需要大量的实际劳动，这既是用于庇护的物质结构，又是反映对原住地的依附的象征性物品。该领域的大多数研究都侧重于其所有者和家庭对跨国房屋的重视，这些房屋和家庭以“回归神话”为内涵，但很少有人关注所有权劳动如何-建造，维护，监督和改善房屋-完成。鉴于有关汇款房屋所需的护理劳动的新兴研究，本文提出了一个理论框架，用于研究护理方面三个方面的跨国房屋维护网络：信任，沟通，和汇款–在跨国家庭护理条款网络中观察到。对跨国房屋所有权文献的回顾表明，这些方面也存在，但在应用方面存在一些差异。