Transnational families between Colombia, Spain and France
Care and the recomposition of gender relations
A talk by Polina Palash, geographer and anthropologist (TELEMMe, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS)
This seminar session focuses on intergenerational care practices in Colombian transnational families, approached through the prism of gender. It is based on a multi-site ethnography conducted with members of different generations in Colombia, Spain and France. The intervention is based on women’s accounts, since women play a key role in the way care practices are organized in families, notably due to the absence of men in their family networks and the fact that they work in feminized professions in Europe.
This exceptional session is supported by two research groups: the “Mobilités et appartenances” (MobAp) seminar and the “Chantiers féministes” thematic axis of the Centre Norbert Elias.
The “Mobilités et appartenances” seminar, coordinated by the Centre Norbert Elias and IDEAS, analyzes the challenges of mobility in its various forms (migration, professional circulation, exile, diaspora, return) and the belonging that goes with it, based on reflections rooted in field surveys.
The “Chantiers féministes” thematic axis focuses on issues of power and gender relations as they influence our professions and research work. Its seminar is designed as a space dedicated to the production of research and analysis, as well as to exchanges and training in feminist studies.
A talk by Polina Palash, geographer and anthropologist (TELEMMe, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS)
This seminar session focuses on intergenerational care practices in Colombian transnational families, approached through the prism of gender. It is based on a multi-site ethnography conducted with members of different generations in Colombia, Spain and France. The intervention is based on women’s accounts, since women play a key role in the way care practices are organized in families, notably due to the absence of men in their family networks and the fact that they work in feminized professions in Europe.