Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests, Lauren Heidbrink

Social Capital among Indian and Iranian Youth and their Families

Youth as contested sites of culture: The intergenerational acculturation gap amongst new migrant communities—Parental and young adult perspectives

BACKGROUND Immigration often results in changes in family dynamics, and within this process of dynamic relational adjustment youth can be conceptualised as contested sites of culture and associated intergenerational conflicts. This paper considers the experiences of migrant youth in Greater Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia using conflict as a useful lens through which to view issues o...

Comparing the Perceptions of Nurses and Families about the Expectations of Intensive Care Unit Patients’ Families

Background: Properly identifying the expectations of family members of patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs) is a necessity for nurses. Objective: The present study aimed to determine and compare the expectations of ICU patients’ families according to the perceptions of ICU nurses and family members. Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study, 147 families of ICU patients and 13...

Transnational families and the family nexus: perspectives of Indonesian and Filipino children left behind by migrant parent(s).

As a significant supplier of labour migrants, Southeast Asia presents itself as an important site for the study of children in transnational families who are growing up separated from at least one migrant parent and sometimes cared for by 'other mothers'. Through the often-neglected voices of left-behind children, we investigate the impact of parental migration and the resulting reconfiguration...

“Something You Do with Your Body”: The Experience and Meaning of Physical Activity from the Perspective of Transnational Youth

Background. The transnational young people’s physical activity participation could intermingle with their ingrained dispositions acquired from their pre-migrating periods, experiences of transnational mobility, new cultural learning, and other migration processes.  Objectives. The current study aimed to investigate transnational youth’s physical activity experience using photo-elicitation inte...