Long-Distance Migrants and Family Support: A Dutch case study

Cora Vellekoop Baldock
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Division of Arts, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA

PP: 45

Abstract

The paper discusses what kind of mutual support and care-giving occurs between Dutch migrants residing in Australia and their parents 'back home' in the Netherlands.

Specific case study examples are used to document the effect of long-distance, as well as situationally determined factors related to joint family history and past experience on migrants' ability to participate in their family support networks.

Keywords

aged care, care-giving, family support networks, geographic proximity, immigrants, transnational families

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