Engaged parenting, gender, and children's time use in transnational families: An assessment spanning three global regions.

ABSTRACT: Global circuits of migration regularly separate parents from children. How families navigate this separation has changed markedly. The sharp decline in the cost of international communication makes possible new forms of transnational parenting. In many contexts, migrants are now actively engaged parents, involved in decisions, knowledgeable of children's schooling, employment, and activities, and in some cases, even conversant face-to-face with children via videoconferencing. These practices, however, are not universal. We use data from surveys in three countries to document the frequency and variability of intensive, engaged transnational parenting in the diverse global regions of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We then ask whether the organisation of children's lives-specifically, time a

SUBMITTER: Jordan LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6473664 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature