“So far apart yet too connected”: The ethnography of the sociality of Tongan migrant mothers and their daughters
Makiko Nishitani 西谷真希子（Lecturer, La Trobe University）
□日時：2022年1月17日（月）18:15〜 （オンライン開催）
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□発表言語：日本語と英語
□要旨
The framework of ‘transnationalism’ has become a standard analytical tool that is used across diverse disciplines in the Social Sciences to capture diasporic people’s sociality. While some scholars argue that transnational connections do not necessarily reflect the main emphasis of diasporic people’s social lives, little research proposes an alternative way to describe their sociality. This paper approaches people’s emic perceptions of sociality by considering the Tongan indigenous concept of social space (v?). V? refers to social space created by social ties, especially kinship ties: the maintenance of which demands that obligations are met and participants act appropriately according to various factors such as gender, kinship hierarchy, age, and marital status. I specifically focus on the roles of mothers and daughters in shaping the Tongan sociality because females are expected, even pressured, to be closely involved with this kin-based social space, while males have relative freedom from such pressures. Based on fieldwork in Melbourne, this paper examines mothers’ and daughters’ everyday practices of engagement with the kin-based social space through travel, gift-exchange and the use of communication technologies, which traverse distances while maintaining the importance of kin members in the proximity.
本発表は以下の本の内容をもとにしている。Nishitani, Makiko 2020 Desire, Obligation and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters and Communication Technology. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press)
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