Like it, don t like it, you have to like it : children s emotional responses to the absence of transnational migrant parents in Lombok, Indonesia

Harriot Beazley; Leslie Butt; Jessica Ball

doi:10.1080/14733285.2017.1407405

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Like it, don t like it, you have to like it : children s emotional responses to the absence of transnational migrant parents in Lombok, Indonesia

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Like it, don t like it, you have to like it : children s emotional responses to the absence of transnational migrant parents in Lombok, Indonesia

Harriot Beazley, Leslie Butt and Jessica Ball

Children's Geographies, Vol.16(6), pp.591-603

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2017.1407405

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children's emotions

Indonesia

migrant parents

stay-behind children

transnational migration

shame

UniSC Diversity Area - Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

UniSC Diversity Area - Life Stages

This article explores the experiences and emotions of children in rural East Lombok, Indonesia, who stay behind with relatives or neighbours while their parents leave the country for work. The article contributes to recent scholarship of children's experiences of transnational migration in Southeast Asia by drawing out the complex emotions of children who stay behind. Based on research conducted in four 'sending' villages, the article describes children's lived experiences of their parent's transnational migration, and their intense feelings that whether they 'like it or don't like it', they have no choice but to acquiesce to their parents' long, often indeterminate absences. The research suggests that stay-behind children are entangled in community anxieties pervading the emotional economy of transnational migration, including the embodied emotion of shame (malu) which shapes children's responses to parental absence. By focusing on children's own views and experiences, we contribute to growing debates about the implications of migration for children's rights and well-being in Southeast Asia.

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Title: Like it, don t like it, you have to like it : children s emotional responses to the absence of transnational migrant parents in Lombok, Indonesia
Authors: Harriot Beazley (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Leslie Butt (Author) - University of Victoria
Jessica Ball (Author) - University of Victoria
Publication details: Children's Geographies, Vol.16(6), pp.591-603
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2017.1407405
ISSN: 1473-3285
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: 99451191302621
Output Type: Journal article

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