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A broken chain? Colonial history, middle-class Indian migrants and intergenerational ambivalence
International Journal of Comparative Sociology ( IF 2.156 ) Pub Date : 2018-12-07 , DOI: 10.1177/0020715218815728
Ester Gallo 1
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The article explores ambivalence among middle-class Indian migrants who return to India after their retirement. It discusses intergenerational ambivalence from the dual perspectives of the relation between older migrants and their parents, and that linking the former to their migrant children today. Older migrants’ transnationalism is an important yet under-researched topic. It offers insights into the temporal dimension of ambivalence: how family contradictions accompany and change throughout the life course, and how they orient migrants’ understandings of the past, present, and future. Central to the analysis is the relation between migrant intergenerational ambivalence and the historical development of the Malayali middle class at home and in the diaspora. Moving beyond studies on ambivalence that mainly focus on Euro-American societies, it explores the phenomenon in postcolonial locations. The article discusses the extent to which colonial forms of socio-geographical mobility shape older migrants’ ambivalence across generations, vis-á-vis broader middle-class expectations around educational/professional attainment, reproductive choices, and care provision. It suggests that a temporal perspective on ambivalence is useful to highlight how transnational family ambivalence is shaped not only by present-day uncertainties but also by political and cultural history. It also enhances our understanding of how dispersed families negotiate ambivalence in the long term, and the cumulative effects of these negotiations in the production of novel care arrangements in the present.

中文翻译:

断链?殖民历史、中产阶级印度移民和代际矛盾

这篇文章探讨了退休后返回印度的中产阶级印度移民的矛盾心理。它从老年移民与其父母之间的关系以及将前者与他们的流动子女联系起来的双重角度讨论了代际矛盾。老年移民的跨国主义是一个重要但研究不足的话题。它提供了对矛盾心理的时间维度的洞察:家庭矛盾如何在整个生命过程中伴随和变化,以及它们如何引导移民对过去、现在和未来的理解。分析的核心是移民代际矛盾与马来亚中产阶级在国内和海外的历史发展之间的关系。超越主要关注欧美社会的矛盾心理研究,它探讨了后殖民地区的现象。本文讨论了社会地理流动的殖民形式在多大程度上塑造了老年移民的矛盾心理,以及中产阶级对教育/专业成就、生育选择和护理提供的更广泛期望。它表明,对矛盾心理的时间视角有助于突出跨国家庭矛盾心理如何不仅受到当今不确定性的影响,而且还受到政治和文化历史的影响。它还增强了我们对分散家庭如何长期协商矛盾心理的理解,以及这些协商在当前新护理安排产生中的累积影响。本文讨论了社会地理流动的殖民形式在多大程度上塑造了老年移民的矛盾心理,以及中产阶级对教育/专业成就、生育选择和护理提供的更广泛期望。它表明,对矛盾心理的时间视角有助于强调跨国家庭矛盾心理如何不仅受到当今不确定性的影响,而且还受到政治和文化历史的影响。它还增强了我们对分散家庭如何长期协商矛盾心理的理解,以及这些协商在当前新护理安排产生中的累积影响。本文讨论了社会地理流动的殖民形式在多大程度上塑造了老年移民的矛盾心理,以及中产阶级对教育/专业成就、生育选择和护理提供的更广泛期望。它表明,对矛盾心理的时间视角有助于突出跨国家庭矛盾心理如何不仅受到当今不确定性的影响,而且还受到政治和文化历史的影响。它还增强了我们对分散家庭如何长期协商矛盾心理的理解,以及这些协商在当前新护理安排产生中的累积影响。生殖选择和护理提供。它表明,对矛盾心理的时间视角有助于强调跨国家庭矛盾心理如何不仅受到当今不确定性的影响,而且还受到政治和文化历史的影响。它还增强了我们对分散家庭如何长期协商矛盾心理的理解,以及这些协商在当前新护理安排产生中的累积影响。生殖选择和护理提供。它表明,对矛盾心理的时间视角有助于强调跨国家庭矛盾心理如何不仅受到当今不确定性的影响,而且还受到政治和文化历史的影响。它还增强了我们对分散家庭如何长期协商矛盾心理的理解,以及这些协商在当前新护理安排产生中的累积影响。
更新日期:2018-12-07
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