Session Name: Remittances and the Linked Lives of Migrants and their Families
3 - The Linked Lives of Transnational Families: Migrant Parents, Remittances, and the Education of Children in Indonesia
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
09:00 – 10:45 (GMT+7)
Presentation Abstract Despite the physical separation, the lives of migrant parents and their children left behind in their home countries are closely linked including via experiences of transnational parenting and financial remittances. Providing a better environment for children’s learning is one of the most important motivations for parental migration, and the economic remittances sent back home can provide the financial security that is often necessary for children’s education. This paper explores how parental migration trajectories intersect with the children’s education trajectories throughout the life course of left-behind children. Firs,t we conduct sequence analysis of parental migration trajectories and children’s educational trajectories. The results of this are then incorporated into regression modelling to identify the role of parental migration-related determinates and economic remittances in influencing children’s education trajectories. Further insights from the perspective of migrant parents in Hong Kong contextualize how the social remittances of education values are understood by migrants and exert influence over transnational family decision-making. This study offers insights into the parent–child linked lives of Southeast Asian transnational families.
Co-Author 1 Lucy Jordan, University of Hong Kong, Department of Social Work and Social Administration
Co-Author 2 Elspeth Graham, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
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