IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bpj/nglost/v7y2013i3p1-22n1.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Families’ Emotion Work in Transnational Settings: The Case of Military Families

Author

Listed:
  • Atwood Kristin

    (Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada)

Abstract

Combining literature on transnational families, migrant workers, and expatriates, I suggest a reconceptualization of military service personnel’s labour during overseas deployment as transnational. Further, I argue that during deployments, military families are thus transnational families who experience unique issues related to their geographical separation. To illustrate this, I explore the way in which military families access information and communications technology in order to maintain relationships across geographical distances, emphasizing the emotional labour of military service personnel and their families. I conclude that conceiving of military service personnel as transnational labourers enables a more nuanced understanding of transnational labour in the context of globalization, one which acknowledges a “grey area” between an ideological dichotomy that places poor manual labourers from developing countries (migrants) in contrast to rich knowledge workers from developed countries (expatriates) with little recognition of the diversity of transnational lives in between.

Suggested Citation

  • Atwood Kristin, 2013. "Families’ Emotion Work in Transnational Settings: The Case of Military Families," New Global Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 7(3), pages 1-22, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:nglost:v:7:y:2013:i:3:p:1-22:n:1
    DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2012-006
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2012-006
    Download Restriction: For access to full text, subscription to the journal or payment for the individual article is required.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1515/ngs-2012-006?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bpj:nglost:v:7:y:2013:i:3:p:1-22:n:1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.degruyter.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.