Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and the role of Information Communication Technologies
About this ebook
The book foregrounds the importance of kinship and support from extended family as well as both the responsibilities migratory family members feel and the experience of loss by those left behind.
Across the diverse circumstances explored in the book are similarities in migrants’ strategies for keeping in touch, but also large differences in relation to access to ICTs and ease-of-use that highlight the digital divide and generational gaps. As elsewhere in the world, and in spite of the varied experiences in these kinship circles, the phenomenon that is the transnational family is showing no signs of receding. This book provides a groundbreaking contribution to global debates on migration from the Global South.
About the author
Maria C Marchetti-Mercer is a clinical psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Leslie Swartz is a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University. He is the author of How I Lost My Mother (2021).
Loretta Baldassar is a professor in Anthropology and Sociology and Director of the Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab at Edith Cowan University, Australia. She is Vice-President of the International Sociological Association Migration Research Committee.
Gonzalo Bacigalupe is Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Thembelihle Coka works for a non-governmental organisation in Johannesburg as a bursary support officer.
Glory Kabaghe is programme manager (maternal and child health) for the Joyful Motherhood project in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Sonto Madonsela is a PhD candidate in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is a research assistant in the School of Human and Community Development.
Lactricia Maja is a PhD candidate in Public Health at the University of Cape Town.
Risuna Mathebula is a counselling psychologist at Westville Girls High School in Durban.
Siko Moyo is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannsesburg.
Esther Price works at FVB Psychologists in Missisauga, Ontario, Canada.
Daniella Rafaely is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Ajwang’ Warria is an associate professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary, Canada
