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The unprecedented rise in both the volume and the velocity of transnational labour migration in and from Asia in recent decades has led to significant social and economic changes not just on the scale of nation-states and communities but also within the most immediate core of human experience, the family. As people become increasingly mobile in response to the restructuring of the global economy, the family – and the accompanying processes of formation, maintenance and dissolution – continually adapts itself to changing or emerging livelihood strategies and the resultant shifts in living arrangements. New concepts such as the “transnational family” and “global householding” have been developed within migration scholarship to capture ongoing transformations of the Asian family as a result of migration. The “transnational family” is broadly defined by the notion that the family continues to share strong bonds of collective welfare and unity even though core members are distributed between two or more nation-states (Yeoh, 2009), while “global householding” emphasises the view that the formation and sustenance of households are increasingly reliant on the international movement of people and transactions among household members who reside in more than one national territory (Douglass, 2006).
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Hoang, L.A., Yeoh, B.S.A. (2015). Introduction: Migration, Remittances and the Family. In: Hoang, L.A., Yeoh, B.S.A. (eds) Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia. Anthropology, Change and Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137506863_1
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