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« Doing » family across distance and national borders: conceptual tools for research

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Merla, Laura [UCL]

In order to fully understand family life, which is increasingly performed in a context of geographical mobility, and where co-residence tends to lose its centrality, researchers need to develop new conceptual tools that cross disciplinary boundaries. This conference builds on the research I have conducted over the past 10 years on the maintenance of family ties and solidarities across geographical distance and national borders. Here I will present a conceptual framework for understanding the dialectical relation between geographical distance and emotional proximity in family life (Merla, François & Jansen, 2014), that combines insights from sociology and psychology, and I will illustrate it with empirical examples from my research on transnational families.

Document type Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper) – Conférence invitée / Keynote
Publication date 2016
Language Anglais
Conference "Famliy – space – identity: Theoretical and empirical approaches after the spatial turn", Deutches JungendInstitut, Munich, Germany (du 20/10/2016 au 21/10/2016)
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies
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Bibliographic reference Merla, Laura. « Doing » family across distance and national borders: conceptual tools for research .Famliy – space – identity: Theoretical and empirical approaches after the spatial turn (Deutches JungendInstitut, Munich, Germany, du 20/10/2016 au 21/10/2016).
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/179182