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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
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 191 pages ): illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on print version record
Subject Tongans -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Social life and customs
Women foreign workers -- Family relationships -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
Tongans -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Communication -- Case studies
Mothers and daughters -- Australia
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Mothers and daughters
Australia
Victoria -- Melbourne
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020007874
ISBN 9780824883607
0824883608
9780824883614
0824883616