Co-presence: a theorical resource in transnational family, emotions, and care research
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This article stems from a broad research project that aims to form a state of the art on transnational family research. This article intends to introduce the theoretical notions of co-presence and its usefulness in transnational family’s research, this concept explores the feeling of togetherness shaped between relatives, despite the distance. Co-presence emphasizes the practices of care and intimacy mediated by the dispositions of polymedia, which is, the plethora of communications available in socio- digital environments. Identifying the paradigmatic construction of co- presence in transnationalism, empirical contributions in real-life cases of transnational families around the world, and types of co-presence that have been constructed by academic investigation, it is expected to offer future research on transnational families a grounded theoretical resource, as well as a methodological orientation that can concur in new contributions and an open discussion about what it means to feel close those who are distant.
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