汇款与情感:当代朝鲜族跨国家庭关系动力学

Remittance and Emotion:Dynamics of the Contemporary Chinese Koreans’Transnational Family Relations

本文以朝鲜族一位普通移民女性的汇款经历及其家庭关系的变化,试图说明跨国汇款是在情感与经济上维持跨国家庭的重要模式,并充满了情爱、义务和怨恨。事实上,尽管汇款对维持家庭关系和为跨国生活不稳定提供相应缓冲发挥了重要作用,但同时也伴随着额外的情感压力。当代朝鲜族跨国家庭的生活经历揭示了汇款实践对维持跨国家庭关系的象征意义和情感意义、对朝鲜族跨国家庭归属方面带来的变化,以及由此造成的跨国家庭模式的复杂性。

Based on the remittance experience of an ordinary female Chinese Korean immigrant and the changes in her family relationship,this paper attempts to illustrate that transnational remittance,as an important strategy to maintain transnational families emotionally and economically,is full of love,obligation and resentment.In fact,although remittance plays an important role in maintaining family ties and providing a buffer against instability in cross-border life,it is accompanied by additional emotional stress.The life experience of this Chinese Korean transnational family reveals the symbolic and emotional significance of remittance practice for maintaining transnational family ties,the changes it has brought to the identity of the Chinese Korean transnational family and the complexity of the transnational family model thus incurred.