Abstract
Like it, Don t Like it, You Have to Like it : Children s Emotions and Absent Parents in Transnational Migrant Communities of Lombok, Indonesia
2016 Association of Southeast AsianUK Conference Book of Abstracts, pp.146-147
Association of Southeast AsianUK (ASEASUK) Conference, 2016 (London, United Kingdom, 16-Sep-2016–18-Sep-2016)
2016
Abstract
This paper explores the experiences and emotions of children and young people whose parents have migrated for work overseas, leaving them behind at home with relatives or community members. The complexity of children's emotions is placed at the forefront, addressing a legacy of scholarship that has at times oversimplified or diminished children's experiences in debates about the cultural logic and traditions of family migration in Southeast Asia. The paper contributes to a growing body of work that emphasises children's own agency in constructing their own experiences in the context of longstanding family experiences of transnational migration. Through a child-centered research approach carried out in 2014, we reveal the emotions and experiences of children of migrant parents from three 'migrant-sending' villages in rural east Lombok, Indonesia. Focussing on their reactions to community expectations that children should accept absent parents as an unavoidable challenge and a necessary part of life, we describe the complex and deep feelings children articulate around expectations that, 'like it or don't like it', they have to accept their parents' absence. By concentrating on children's own views and experiences, we contribute to burgeoning debates about the affective implications of migration in the Southeast Asia region.
Details
- Title
- Like it, Don t Like it, You Have to Like it : Children s Emotions and Absent Parents in Transnational Migrant Communities of Lombok, Indonesia
- Authors
- Harriot Beazley (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawLeslie Butt (Author) - University of Victoria, Canada
- Publication details
- 2016 Association of Southeast AsianUK Conference Book of Abstracts, pp.146-147
- Conference details
- Association of Southeast AsianUK (ASEASUK) Conference, 2016 (London, United Kingdom, 16-Sep-2016–18-Sep-2016)
- Publisher
- ASEASUK
- Date published
- 2016
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451085202621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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