Living together across borders : communicative care in transnational Salvadoran families / Lynnette Arnold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnold, Lynnette, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in the anthropology of language.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in the anthropology of language

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transnationalism.

Salvadorans--United States--Social conditions.

Salvadorans.

Communication in families--El Salvador.

Communication in families.

Salvadorans--United States--Communication.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

El Salvador--Foreign relations--United States.

El Salvador.

United States--Foreign relations--El Salvador.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Presenting a miltisited ethnography of communication in extended familiies living between the US and El Salvador, this text examines seemingly mundance conversational practices. Such practices (sending greetings, reminiscing) are central to family life across borders and it underscores the consequentiality of these linguistic practices by tracing how they are shaped by and reshape gendered and generational norms of family care.

Contents:

Cover

Living Together Across Borders

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Transcription Conventions

About the Companion Website

Prologue: Why I Wrote This Book

Introduction: Communication and Care-​at-​a-​Distance

Communicative Convivencia (Living-​Together)

Navigating Family Separation through Communication

Migration and Family Care in Rural El Salvador

What Is Care?

Care and Kinship across Borders

Communicative Care

Methods for Studying Cross-​Border Communication

Organization of the Book

1 . Making Family Care Political: State-​Endorsed Migration Discourse in El Salvador

Hermano Lejano ¡Bienvenido! (Distant Brother, Welcome!)

Ustedes Son Embajadores Laborales (You Are Working Ambassadors)

State-​Endorsed Migration Discourse

Contrastive Migrant Personhood: Heroes or Dangerous Failures?

The Heroic Migrant as Economic Provider

Failed Migrants as Scapegoats in Transnational Moral Panics

The Selfish Migrant: Family Disintegration as a National Threat

Conclusion

2 . Transnational Care in Multigenerational Households: Asymmetrical Practices and Moral Meanings

Quincean˜era

Signifying and Enacting Obligations with Relational Grammars

Care in Multigenerational Extended Households

Envisioning Asymmetry and Reciprocity

Communication Technologies and Affordances

Contesting Asymmetries through Interwoven Conversations

3 . "Les Mando Saludos": Sending Greetings, Envisioning Family, and Grappling with Inequality

Communicative Emissaries

How Greetings Matter

Sending Greetings in Latin America

Mandar Saludos as a Genre of Communicative Care

Envisioning Kin Care through Reference Patterns

Learning to Send Greetings and Family Futures

Resignifying and Reproducing Care Asymmetries

Conclusion.

4 Talking Remittances: The Conversational Temporalities of Intergenerational Care

Consequential Conversational Temporalities

Communicative Labor in Remittance Conversations

A Birthday to Remember

The Interactive Temporality of Requests

Making Indirect Requests through Complaints

Intensifying Complaints with Reported Speech

Creating and Breaking Communicative Norms

5 Communicative Memory: Defying Institutional Forgetting through Remembering as Care

¿Se Acuerda Cuando . . . ? (Do You Remember When . . . ?)

Institutional Forgetting and the Struggle for Memory

Naming the Dead to Preserve Memoria Histórica

Making Meaning in Día de los Difuntos Rituals

Remembering Together across Borders

Connecting Past and Present through Stance Alignment

Motivations for Remembering

Dialogic Convivencia and Imagined Togetherness

The Future of the Past

Conclusion: Social Change through Communicative Care

A Miracle?

Thinking Communication and Care Together

A Call to Accompany as Accomplices

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 26, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-775577-1

0-19-775575-5

OCLC:

1427254059