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Author:
Nishitani, Makiko, author.
Title:
Desire, obligation, and familial love : mothers, daughters, and communication technology in the Tongan diaspora / Makiko Nishitani.
Publisher:
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
ix, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Tongans--Melbourne (Vic.)--Melbourne (Vic.)--Social life and customs.
Women foreign workers--Family relationships--Melbourne (Vic.).--Melbourne (Vic.).
Tongans--Melbourne (Vic.)--Melbourne (Vic.)--Communication--Case studies.
Mothers and daughters--Australia.
Mothers and daughters.
Australia.
Victoria--Melbourne.
Case studies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"So far apart, yet too connected" : the Tongan social field -- Reterritorializing the Tongan social field : Melbourne -- Boys go, girls stay -- Diasporic gifts -- Social media in the everyday lives of mothers and daughters -- Making things happen : communication flows and diasporic dramas -- Conclusion: desire, obligation and familial love.
Summary:
"Filled with rich, intimate portrayals of diasporic women's everyday lives and the everyday politics of familial relationships, Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love will appeal to students and scholars of the anthropology of migration, of communication technologies and social media, and of gender and familial relationships, as well as to those interested in fieldwork methodology, transnational and migration studies, and Pacific Studies"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
082488177X
9780824881771
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1134444111
LCCN:
2020007874
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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