In recent years, a body of research has aimed to ‘de-demonise’ distance in transnational family lives, arguing that transnational families compensate for physical co-presence with other means of caring and ‘being there’ for each other, particularly by way of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). Although many researchers claim to study transnational families, they mostly study the relationships between ageing parents in ‘home’ countries and the migrant son or daughter overseas. In this article, I propose to broaden that scope to include generations further apart too. In analysing how and why Danish migrant parents work to transmit their Danish culture and language to their children settled in Australia, I argue that geographical distance continues to matter, not least to the relationships between grandparents and grandchildren separated by this distance but also due to the complicated relationship between migrants and parents which is fostered by separation.

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回顾距离在跨国家庭生活中的重要性：

近年来，一项研究旨在“消除妖魔化”跨国家庭生活中的距离，认为跨国家庭通过其他相互照料和“相处”的方式补偿了身体的共同存在，特别是通过新的信息和通信技术（ICT）。尽管许多研究人员声称要研究跨国家庭，但他们大多研究“家乡”国家中年迈的父母与海外移民的儿子或女儿之间的关系。在本文中，我建议扩大该范围，以包括更远的世代。在分析丹麦移民父母如何以及为什么向他们定居在澳大利亚的孩子传播丹麦文化和语言时，我认为地理距离仍然很重要，