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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McNeil‐Walsh, Colleen Elizabeth

Titel

Visiting here, there, and somewhere: Multi‐locality and the geographies of transnational family visiting

Ist Teil von

• Global networks (Oxford), 2023-01, Vol.23 (1), p.277-290

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For transnational families, visits represent an opportunity to temporarily punctuate the geographical distance that separates them from significant others in everyday life. Drawing on data from mapping‐interviews conducted with older skilled migrants in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, this paper is concerned with how transnational visiting is harnessed to sustain a sense of family togetherness at a later stage of the life course. The discussion contributes to migration scholarship on return visits and visits by relatives to the migration destination but also draws attention to a third dimension of visiting; family meet‐ups in a third space—a location that is neither the country of origin nor the migration destination. Hence, I propose an explicitly spatial, relational conceptualization of transnational family visits, arranged around a multi‐local framework: the return visit (‘there’); the receiving of visits in the migration destination (‘here’); and visits in an in‐between geographical space (‘somewhere’). In so doing, this paper places the spotlight on the geographies of visiting, drawing attention to the dynamic way in which the practice of transnational family visiting in enacted in later life.