Reconceiving Asian parenting within intra-Asia migration

In the context of rising intra-regional migration in Asia, this Special Issue examines how Asian parenting is reconceived when families engage in migration. By focusing on transnational, translocal, emotional and temporal experiences during intra-Asia migration, this collection focuses attention away from the axis of ideological parenting culture wars pitting Asian authoritarian parenting styles against Western authoritative styles. Instead, the Special Issue maintains a focus on migrant parents’ subjectivities and the lived experiences of parenting in relation to intra-Asia migration and mobilities. In doing so, it advances three prominent intellectual currents: first, how the feminisation and diversification of intra-Asia migration flows, accompanied by advancements in communication technologies, have broadened the scope of research on parenting dynamics within Asian transnational and translocal families; second, how restrictive Asian migration regimes have sparked new work on gender and generational dynamics undergirding the emotions and emotional work at stake in (grand)parenting across borders; and third, how a critical temporalities framework throws new light on competing temporal orders in the way intra-Asia migrant families juxtapose parenting and migration times.