Prologue
The author split with her family for this reason.
A: Left Christian Community / Religious Disputes
- Wanted less strict gender roles
- relates to El Salvadorian families through these experiences
Instead of separating the ethical and the moral, Arnold suggests using this term.
A: Ethico-moral
What term is defined by the author as “ways of understanding the social world that are continually invoked and thereby come to shape many forms of collective life?” (34)
A: Imaginaries
The qualification for a good life and how life should be lived.
A: Moral imaginaries
This act is a unidirectional form of communicative care in transnational families.
A: Mandar Saludos
Arnold wrote about this relationship, which includes experiences of speaking to relatives in both countries (El Salvador and the U.S.).
A: Transnational network of communication / Transnational Relationship
Families use cross-border communication to forge a sense of this key concept.
A: Convivencia (living-together)
“These relational moments of cross-border connection are fleeting, their impacts are lasting, laying the foundation for the ongoing material and economic provisioning necessary to family survival.”
Sustain intergenerational connections
This type of migrant, as existing in state-endorsed imaginaries, is known as the male breadwinner who brings pride to his family and his nation
A: Heroic migrant (hermano lejano)
Arnold claims transborder household are these type of economic actors
A: Global
In exchange for Mandar Saludos, non-migrant family members often receive this from their migrant relatives.
A: Remittances
This concept makes Transnational Salvadoran families worry that their migrant relatives in the U.S. will forget their obligations to those back home. (2 possible answers)
A: Materialism and individualism
Amplified by the media
Governmental rhetoric that makes family disintegration seem like an inevitable outcome of migration.
Systematic corruption from external forces caused this lack of a state economic system.
A: Neoliberalism
This migrant, also existing in state-endorsed imaginaries, is shunned for embracing American ideals such as individualism and abandoning their familial ties.
A: Selfish migrant
Women bear a disproportionate amount of responsibility and care due to the absence of this type of care.
A: Paternal Care
Sending videos acts as a digital form of this role, which is a common tradition in Latin American communities.
A: Communicative Emissaries