SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Economic Restructuring, Transnationalism, Social Reproduction
29 Nov 2018
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Immigrant experience varies depending on: country of origin, presence of kin networks, salience of transnational family connections, informal and formal social support, race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and age. Immigration policy, macro-structures such as globalization, economic restructuring, global recession, new communication technologies. Immigration from countries where people are interested in farming. Then after ww2, more immigration and restrictions on immigrants (chinese, etc. ) are lifted. Restrictions related to country removed in early 1960s. Immigrant experience depending on social class, economic resources, kin networks. Somerville examined two aspects of social reproduction: feeding one"s family and taking care of the health needs of one"s family. Transnational families refer to those families where one or more members may be living in different countries. Somerville examines how caregiving among this group of south asian immigrants is transnational. This transnational caregiving is gendered as women assume a disproportionate share of this work. Caregiving is transnational, support such as food and health goes back and forth.
