Transnational Somali Families in Cairo

Parental factors related to children’s reading: Evidence from comparing transnational marriage families and local families

The purpose of this study was to determine the parental factors related to children’s reading by comparing two types of families, transnational marriage families in which the mother was not born in Taiwan and local families. Data for this study came from the PIRLS 2006. There were 273 children from transnational marriage families. Children’s gender, mother’s education level and well-off conditi...

Canine leptospirosis in Cairo.

Childhood vaccine beliefs reported by Somali and non-Somali parents.

BACKGROUND In 2011, an outbreak of measles in Minnesota was traced back to an unvaccinated Somali child. The purpose of this project was to (1) ascertain whether Somali parents are more likely than non-Somalis to refuse childhood vaccinations, particularly the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and (2) determine what factors influence the decision not to vaccinate. METHODS We explored parent...

Migration and the accentuated ambivalence of motherhood: the role of ICTs in Filipino transnational families

This article is concerned with the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on Filipina transnational mothers’ experience of motherhood, their practices of mothering and, ultimately, their identities as mothers. Drawing on ethnographic research with Filipina migrants in the UK as part of a wider study of Filipino transnational families, this article observes that, despite the...

Separation and reunification: the experiences of adolescents living in transnational families.

There are increasing numbers of mothers as well as fathers who engage in long-term migration to support their children and other family members in their home countries. In this article, the current state of the literature about children and adolescents left at home in these transnational families is surveyed and reviewed. The article reviews the effects on children of the process of separation ...