Transnational families migration and the circulation of care understanding mobility and absence in family life baldassar loretta merla laura 9780415626736 books amazonca. Locating transnational care circulation in migration and family studies loretta baldassar and laura merla part b care circulation theoretical and empirical considerations 2 mapping the new plurality of transnational families a life course perspective karin wall and claudio bolzman 3. Baldassar l merla l eds 2014 transnational families migration and the circulation of care understanding mobility and absence in family life routledge transnationalism series routledge . Understanding mobility and absence in family life transnational families migration and the circulation of care doi link for transnational families migration and the circulation of care transnational families migration and the circulation of care book understanding mobility and absence in family life edited by loretta baldassar laura merla edition 1st edition first published 2013 . It re conceptualises transnational care as a set of activities that circulates between home and host countries across generations and fluctuates over the life course going beyond a focus on mother child relationships to include multidirectional exchanges across generations and between genders it highlights in particular how the sense of belonging in transnational families is sustained