Culture in Collective Parenting of Children of Indonesian Women Migrant Workers (TKW)
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220407.008How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- culture; collective care; child communication; ethnography of communication; interaction
- Abstract
Children at the age of growth and development need attention and care from their parents, especially mothers. However, such ideal condition is not always available, especially for children whose mothers have to work abroad as women migrant workers (TKW). Therefore, family of TKW have to take over that responsibility. The care of TKW’s family for TKW’s children is strongly influenced by the culture they live in. Habits and uniqueness of caregiving in a certain environment will color the collective care provided by the family which different from one region to another. The purpose of this study is to map communication events occur in the process of caregiving in the scope of TKW’s family and to analyze the caregiving culture built. This study develops communication patterns in collective care for children with local cultural backgrounds. The research method used is ethnography of communication to explore the culture emerges in caregiving. The research phase is mapping communication events that take place in childcare activities and analyze the culture built in the collective care process. Communication is believed to be a channel that can establish mutual understanding between members of family in building a culture of caregiving.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ike Junita Triwardhani AU - Wulan Trigartanti AU - Endri Listiani PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/23 TI - Culture in Collective Parenting of Children of Indonesian Women Migrant Workers (TKW) BT - Proceedings of the 4th Social and Humanities Research Symposium (SoRes 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 35 EP - 38 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220407.008 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220407.008 ID - Triwardhani2022 ER -