When the children remain in El Salvador: Transnational families and family reunifications of Salvadorian migrants in Washington, D.C. [Cuando los hijos se quedan en El Salvador: Familias transnacionales y reunificación familiar de inmigrantes salvadoreños en Washington, D.C.]

Revista de Dialectologia y Tradiciones Populares
Volume 59, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 257-276

When the children remain in El Salvador: Transnational families and family reunifications of Salvadorian migrants in Washington, D.C. [Cuando los hijos se quedan en El Salvador: Familias transnacionales y reunificación familiar de inmigrantes salvadoreños en Washington, D.C.] (Article)

Molina R.S.

^a Dpto. Antropología Social y Cultural, UNED, Madrid, Spain

Abstract

Current migratory flows develope new social-cultural patterns such as transnational families. Using ethnographic data collected in Washington, D.C. and El Salvador, this article describes and analyzes the different strategies develop by Salvadoran immigrants living in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to re-shape their domestic units. The immigrant modes of incorporation into the US societies and the logic of family unity affect these configurations to such an extent that until all the family members can be together again, the pre-migratory cultural patterns and those acquired in the host society affect in the transnational family configurations.

Author Keywords

Salvadoran immigrants Migratory policies Washington, D.C. Transnationalism Family

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Link
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ISSN: 00347981

Cited by: 2

Original Language: Spanish