文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Family-mediated migration infrastructure: Chinese international students and parents navigating (im)mobilities during the COVID-19 pandemic

作者：Hu, Yang[1];Xu, Cora Lingling[2];Tu, Mengwei[3]

机构：[1]Univ Lancaster, Dept Sociol, Lancaster, England;[2]Univ Durham, Sch Educ, Durham, England;[3]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Sociol, 130 Meilong Rd, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2022

卷号：54

期号：1

起止页码：62

外文期刊名：CHINESE SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000585795600001)】；

基金：This work was supported by the National Social Science Fund of China [grant number: 18CSH011].

语种：英文

摘要：The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated responses such as border closure, lockdown measures and flight curtailment have severely disrupted transnational infrastructures that sustain, channel, organize and condition international migration. This infrastructural disruption has led to the double exclusion of temporary migrants from both sending and host societies. In this context, we explore how Chinese international students in the United Kingdom and their parents in China navigate transnational (im)mobilities during the pandemic. In doing so, we develop the conceptualization of "family-mediated migration infrastructure" to elucidate the role played by transnational family relationships in brokering information, mobilizing resources, and coordinating disjointed acts of institutional players in order to sustain transnational (im)mobility. We also reveal a distinctive emotional double-bind in the process of family-mediated infrastructuring, which requires members of transnational families to strategically perform emotional engagement and detachment in complex ways. Our findings highlight the functional resilience and emotional vulnerability of family-mediated transnational migration infrastructure, and render visible the intimate fabrics that contribute to sustaining transnationalism during the pandemic.