Is Transnational Parenting Gendered? The Impact of Parents’ Family and Migration Trajectories on Their Practices and Attitudes

Tatiana Eremenko, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

A growing literature is focusing on the experiences of transnational families, particularly those with children involved, with results pointing to parent’s possible gender specific practices and attitudes. Our study explores this aspect in the current French context using the Longitudinal Survey of Recently Arrived Migrants (ELIPA). We focus on parents with at least one child residing abroad and study the determinants of engaging in different practices (contacts, remittances and trips to country of origin) within this group. We systematically introduce the family's characteristics, as well as the migrant parent's socio-economic and legal conditions at destination, the initial hypothesis being that these factors equally influence the parents' practices, in interaction with their gender. The results point to the fact that part of the observed differences in the parenting practices arise from the different transnational family configurations male and female migrants are in.