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Introduction to the Special Issue
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2020
Digital media and the affective economies of transnational families
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-08-2020
Abstract: Digital media are widely recognised as essential to the maintenance of transnational families. To date, most accounts have focused on the role of digital media practices as producing and sustaining transnational relationships, through, for ex le, the practices of ‘digital kinning’. In this article, we extend that body of work by drawing attention to the specific role of the emotions that are circulated through digital media interactions and practices. We use data from ethnographic interviews with older migrant adults to consider how people who fled civil wars and resettled in Australia bridge the distances between ‘here’ and ‘there’. Our analysis draws attention to the circulation of affect, arguing that it is the capacity of digital media to circulate emotions and support affective economies that gives substance to and defines the surfaces and boundaries of transnational families, and constitutes the mutuality of being that underpins familyhood at a distance.
The social reproductive worlds of migrants
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Migration, Aging, and Digital Kinning
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 08-12-2020
Abstract: High rates of migration contribute to the dispersal of support networks across distance. For older adults reliant on informal care, this creates a high risk of increased social isolation. In this article, we highlight the role of communication technologies in maintaining support networks and identities across distance. Building on transnational family research and on anthropological notions of “kinning,” we propose that processes of distant support can be better understood through the new concept of “digital kinning.” A qualitative project conducted in Australia (2016–2019) with over 150 older migrants (55+) born in nine countries comprising ethnographic interviews and observations. Analysis comprised the inductive approach of ethnographic qualitative research and theory building from cases, drawn from grounded theory traditions. Select ethnographic cases illustrate the key dimensions and benefits of “digital kinning” for older migrants. Digital kinning practices support the access of older migrants to (i) essential sources of social connection and support, (ii) maintenance of cultural identity, and (iii) protection of social identity, including across distance. Their effectiveness is reliant on access to affordable and reliable digital communication tools. Although essential to the well-being of older migrants, distant support networks and the digital kinning practices that sustain them receive little attention from policy makers and health practitioners. Organizations concerned with the care of older people must improve awareness of distant support networks by supporting practices of “digital kinning,” ranging from including distant kin in health care plans to prioritizing digital inclusion initiatives.
Killing pigs and talking to nonna: “wog” versus “cosmopolitan” Italianitá among second-generation Italian-Australians and the role of family
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-08-2018
Return mobilities and Italian youth transitions: new meanings around adulthood
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-10-2022
Transnational families, care and wellbeing
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 30-12-2016
Transnational Families and Aged Care: The Mobility of Care and the Migrancy of Ageing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2007
Mobile transitions: a conceptual framework for researching a generation on the move
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-08-2017
Guilty feelings and the guilt trip: Emotions and motivation in migration and transnational caregiving
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2015
Missing friendships
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-11-2017
Leaving Family to Return to Family: Roots Migration Among Second‐Generation Italian‐Australians
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2017
DOI: 10.1111/ETHO.12173
Settling down in time and place? Changing intimacies in mobile young people's migration and life courses
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-06-2020
DOI: 10.1002/PSP.2357
Transnational family-work balance: Experiences of Australian migrants caring for ageing parents and young children across distance and borders
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2009
DOI: 10.5172/JFS.15.2.177
Sideways moves to adult life: the transnational mobility and transitions of young Italians to Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-11-2022
Intra-diaspora Knowledge Transfer and 'New' Italian Migration
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-10-2014
DOI: 10.1111/IMIG.12135
Ageing between Cultures: the Experiences and Challenges of Italian Migrants in South Australia, edited by Daniela Cosmini-Rose, Leicester, Troubador, 2015, 200 pp., £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-16-846
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 08-05-2017
DOI: 10.1017/MIT.2017.26
Emotions on the move: Mapping the emergent field of emotion and migration
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2015
Concluding reflections: ‘Care circulation’ in an increasingly mobile world: Further thoughts
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Date: 30-03-2016
It's complicated, isn't it: Citizenship and ethnic identity in a mobile world
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-12-2016
Abstract: This article explores the experiences of second-generation migrants with a focus on Chinese in Prato (Italy), for whom the relationship between citizenship and identity is tightly linked. Most studies maintain that the link between citizenship and identity is instrumentalist or ambiguous. In contrast, we focus on the affective dimension of citizenship and identity. We argue that citizenship status functions as a key defining concept of identity in Italy, in contrast to countries like Australia, where the notion of ethnicity is more commonly evoked. Several factors have contributed to this situation: the strong essentialist conception of ius sanguinis in Italian citizenship law, the recent history of Italian immigration, the European politics of exclusion and the repudiation of the concept of ethnicity in Italian scholarship as well as popular and political discourse. We conclude that the emphasis on formal citizenship, and the relative absence of alternative identity concepts like ethnicity, limits the possibilities for expressions of mixity and hyphenated identities in contemporary Italian society.
Too sick to move: distant ‘crisis’ care in transnational families
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2014
Tracking Transnationalism: Migrancy and its Futures
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2007
Researching older Vietnam-born migrants at a distance
Publisher: Policy Press
Date: 29-11-2021
Afghan Hazara Refugees in Australia: Constructing Australian Citizens
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2007
Introduction to the Special Issue “Transnational care: Families confronting borders”
Publisher: Universitatsbibliothek Bamberg
Date: 02-12-2020
DOI: 10.20377/JFR-420
Abstract: In this article, we introduce the key themes of our Special Issue on "Transnational care: families confronting borders". Central to this collection is the question of how family relations and solidarities are impacted by the current scenario of closed borders and increasingly restrictive migration regimes. This question is examined more specifically through the lens of care dynamics within transnational families and their (re-)configurations across erse contexts marked by "immobilizing regimes of migration". We begin by presenting a brief overview of key concepts in the transnational families and caregiving literature that provides a foundation for the erse cases explored in the articles, including refugees and asylum seekers in Germany and Finland, Polish facing Brexit in the UK, Latin American migrants transiting through Mexico, and restrictionist drifts in migration policies in Australia, Belgium and the UK. Drawing on this rich work, we identify two policy tools namely temporality and exclusion, which appear to be particularly salient features of immobilizing regimes of migration that significantly influence care-related mobilities. We conclude with a discussion of how immobilizing regimes are putting transnational family solidarities in crisis, including in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, gripping the globe at the time of writing.
The need for a ‘migration turn’ in aged care policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-06-2021
Chinese immigrant youth identities and belonging in Prato, Italy: exploring the intersections between migration and youth studies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-03-2015
Examining transnational care circulation trajectories within immobilizing regimes of migration: Implications for proximate care
Publisher: Universitatsbibliothek Bamberg
Date: 02-12-2020
DOI: 10.20377/JFR-351
Abstract: In this paper we argue that the current political context of restrictionist migration policies is dramatically affecting people’s capacity to cross borders to engage in proximate care with their relatives, which is a central, yet often overlooked, feature of transnational care practices. We examine how the wider context of temporality, restrictive mobility, and heightened uncertainty about the future affect people’s ability to be mobile and to move back and forth for caregiving. In examining the wellbeing effects of such restrictions, we highlight their variable impact depending on factors such as socio-economic positioning, life-course stage and health. The first sections of the paper present the care circulation framework and the particular meaning and function of proximate forms of care, as well as the main categories of care-related mobility that support this. We illustrate the dynamics and challenges faced by transnational family members, who engage in these care-related mobilities, through three vignettes involving care circulation between India and the UK, China and Australia, and Morocco and Belgium. In the final section, we discuss our vignettes in relation to the political, physical, social and time dimensions of current regimes of mobility that impact on care-related mobilities. We argue that the regimes of mobility that currently govern care-related mobilities are best understood as ‘immobilizing regimes’ with important and undervalued implications for ontological security and wellbeing.
Sibling Support in Transnational Families: The Impact of Migration and Mobility on Sibling Relationships of Support Over Time and Distance
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 10-12-2020
Heart Foundation Walk Wise Healthy Active Ageing Rapid Evidence Review and Checklist
Publisher: University of Western Australia
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.26182/ZDH2-EJ22
Who Cares? The Unintended Consequences of Policy for Migrant Families
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Embracing cultural diversity – leadership perspectives on championing meaningful engagement for residents living with advanced dementia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-12-2020
DOI: 10.1007/S10823-019-09387-3
Abstract: Resource constraints and high staff turnover are perceived as substantial barriers to high quality residential aged care. Achieving relationship-focused, person-centered care (PCC) is an ongoing challenge. This paper reports on an international project that explored how residential care leadership understand meaningful engagement for residents with dementia from culturally and linguistically erse (CALD) backgrounds. This paper critically appraises the process, and outcomes, of an adapted Delphi method. Participants were the residential care leadership (i.e. staff in supervisory capacity) from four international facilities. Participation in the Delphi process was limited even though surveys were designed to require minimal time for completion. No participants opted for the alternative option of being interviewed. Findings indicate that residential care leadership recognised the importance of meaningful engagement for residents from CALD backgrounds. Limitations of time, resources and policy infrastructure were cited as barriers to achieving PCC. These findings suggest that facility leadership understand the importance of PCC, but identify multiple barriers rather than enablers for delivering PCC. Alternative methods, such as collecting data in interactive sessions allowing real-time discussion should be initiated to more effectively engage residential care leaders for a collaborative approach to explore PCC practices.
The Vietnamese in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-01-2017
Beyond “just being there”: Teaching internationalization at home in two qualitative methods units
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-02-2016
Abstract: Study-abroad and international-student programs are commonly understood to transform their participants into “global citizens” possessing “cross-cultural competencies.” Similar benefits are anticipated from “internationalization at home”—defined as any on-c us, internationally related activity—whereby international students engage with and thus enrich the lives of domestic students. In this article, we reflect on a research project tied to two coursework units, in which largely domestic undergraduate students undertake qualitative research with or about international students. When developing the project, we postulated that the researcher–informant engagement that characterizes qualitative research mirrors that required for effective domestic–international student engagement. In describing engagement, we utilize research on experiential learning, which suggests that experiences can become knowledge only through reflection, analysis, and synthesis. We examine the ways that cross-cultural engagement and experiential learning gained through students’ qualitative research might lead to the realization of the anticipated benefits of internationalization at home.
Ageing in transnational contexts: transforming everyday practices and identities in later life
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2017
“Is Granny Going Back into the Computer?”: Visits and the Familial Politics of Seeing and Being Seen in South African Transnational Families
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-06-2021
The significance of digital citizenship in the well-being of older migrants
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.PUHE.2018.03.005
Abstract: To understand the increasingly important role of digital citizenship (the ability to participate in society online) in supporting the well-being of ageing migrants. Participant observation, social network mapping, ethnographic and life-history interviews. Fifteen in-depth case studies examined the role of online participation in fostering the well-being and care of older migrants in Perth, Western Australia. Participants are members of an 'internet café' that facilitates their shared development of Internet skills. The case studies are derived from ethnographic research conducted between July and October 2016. Older peoples' maintenance of support networks and social engagement, and their access to healthcare services, can be enhanced when they are motivated to increase their digital literacy (the ability to use the Internet for information and communication) through appropriate educational, technological, infrastructure and social support. This support is likely to be more effective when developed through social learning systems that create communities of practice. Improving digital literacy has special implications for the well-being of older migrants because it can enhance their ability to exchange emotional support across distance. Digital literacy for older migrants can dramatically increase their ability to maintain and expand dispersed networks of support. Effective implementation of affordable and age-inclusive information and communication technology (ITC) infrastructure requires integrated support that connects in iduals and their homes with social learning systems to ensure that participation continues as mobility declines. As health information and social engagement are increasingly delivered through online platforms, supporting the digital citizenship of older people is becoming an important equity issue.
Practices of ‘Digital Homing’ and Gendered Reproduction among Older Sinhalese and Karen Migrants in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2022
Mobilities and Communication Technologies: Transforming Care in Family Life
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Scoping Review: Intergenerational Resource Transfer and Possible Enabling Factors
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 27-10-2020
Abstract: We explore the intergenerational pattern of resource transfer and possible associated factors. A scoping review was conducted of quantitative, peer-reviewed, English-language studies related to intergenerational transfer or interaction. We searched AgeLine, PsycINFO, Social Work Abstracts, and Sociological Abstracts for articles published between Jane 2008 and December 2018. Seventy-five studies from 25 countries met the inclusion criteria. The scoping review categorised resource transfers into three types: financial, instrumental, and emotional support. Using an intergenerational solidarity framework, factors associated with intergenerational transfer were placed in four categories: (1) demographic factors (e.g., age, gender, marital status, education, and ethno-cultural background) (2) needs and opportunities factors, including health, financial resources, and employment status (3) family structures, namely, family composition, family relationship, and earlier family events and (4) cultural-contextual structures, including state policies and social norms. Those factors were connected to the direction of resource transfer between generations. Downward transfers from senior to junior generations occur more frequently than upward transfers in many developed countries. Women dominate instrumental transfers, perhaps influenced by traditional gender roles. Overall, the pattern of resource transfer between generations is shown, and the impact of social norms and social policy on intergenerational transfers is highlighted. Policymakers should recognise the complicated interplay of each factor with different cultural contexts. The findings could inform policies that strengthen intergenerational solidarity and support.
Oenological traits of Lachancea thermotolerans show signs of domestication and allopatric differentiation
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-10-2018
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-33105-7
Abstract: The yeast Lachancea thermotolerans (previously Kluyveromyces thermotolerans ) is a species of large, yet underexplored, oenological potential. This study delivers comprehensive oenological phenomes of 94 L. thermotolerans strains obtained from erse ecological niches worldwide, classified in nine genetic groups based on their pre-determined microsatellite genotypes. The strains and the genetic groups were compared for their alcoholic fermentation performance, production of primary and secondary metabolites and pH modulation in Chardonnay grape juice fermentations. The common oenological features of L. thermotolerans strains were their glucophilic character, relatively extensive fermentation ability, low production of acetic acid and the formation of lactic acid, which significantly affected the pH of the wines. An untargeted analysis of volatile compounds, used for the first time in a population-scale phenotyping of a non- Saccharomyces yeast, revealed that 58 out of 90 volatiles were affected at an L. thermotolerans strain level. Besides the remarkable extent of intra-specific ersity, our results confirmed the distinct phenotypic performance of L. thermotolerans genetic groups. Together, these observations provide further support for the occurrence of domestication events and allopatric differentiation in L. thermotolerans population.
Transnational families in the era of global mobility
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 23-02-2018
Migrant visits over time: Ethnographic returning and the technological turn
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-08-2022
DOI: 10.1111/GLOB.12393
Abstract: This paper reflects on four decades of research (via ethnographic returning) to explore the social transformations in travel and communication technologies that have impacted the lived experiences, and consequently the theoretical conceptualization, of migrant visits. A comparison of migration waves between Italy and Australia reveals both continuities in visiting experience as deeply relational practices that facilitate a mutuality of being, but also transformations brought about by the technological turn. Visits take on different meanings depending on in idual/ family life stage, generation, and community and national histories. The capacity for both physical and virtual copresence must be understood as coconstitutive, requiring a temporal perspective. The experiences of immobile migrants in residential care suggest that, in the context of rich histories of copresence over time, digital kinning can provide the capacity to share a mutuality of being that safeguards the socio‐relational ties of in idual and collective identities and belonging that make us human.
Italian youth mobility: The case for a Mediterranean model of ‘family-centred’ mobile transitions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 31-08-2021
DOI: 10.1177/14687968211037083
Abstract: This article seeks to advance our understanding of contemporary transnational youth mobility, drawing on the concept ‘mobile transitions’ to explore scholarly approaches to the mobility practices of young Italians moving abroad. We present a critical literature review of the intersections of migration, youth and transition studies to argue that the literature on youth transnational mobility currently features two contrasting models comprising a ‘transitions-focused’ Global South model and an ‘experiential-focused’ Global North model. This bifurcation fails to account for emergent regional models of mobility that may help to sharpen scholarly understandings of a new generation of youth ‘on the move’. We propose an alternative model positioned somewhere along the spectrum between the Global North and Global South models, which we define as the Mediterranean model of ‘family-centred’ transnational youth mobility. This model reflects aspects of both privileged, experiential youth migrations, which tend to undervalue the impact on transitions to adulthood, and economically driven youth migrations, which tend to focus more directly on the economic dimensions of youth to adulthood transitions. The Mediterranean model highlights more broadly how mobility enables and shapes transitions, which are simultaneously driven by both economic imperatives and in idual experiential desires, and mediated through family and culture.
Missing Kin and Longing to be Together: Emotions and the Construction of Co-presence in Transnational Relationships
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2008
Studying internationalization on campus
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2017
Digital Anticipation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-02-2022
DOI: 10.1177/00027642221075261
Abstract: In this article, we contrast the digital kinning and digital homing practices of PRC Chinese transnational grandparents in Australia from two migration cohorts. Our case studies demonstrate that these digital practices form an integral part of the ability to anticipate aging futures. This “digital anticipation” not only helps to safeguard and affirm social and cultural identities that are often at risk as people age in migrant settings, but also provides the potential to imagine either a future return to China that involves physical separation from children and grandchildren, or, conversely, a future lived in Australia while still maintaining connection and participating digitally in affective economies that extend beyond the nuclear family to encompass siblings, friends, and lifelong workmates. Here the role of facilitated digital access is highlighted as a form of care that can be provided by younger generations.
ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: Challenging the premise of face-to-face proximity in sustaining relationships
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-02-2016
DOI: 10.1111/GLOB.12108
De-demonizing distance in mobile family lives: co-presence, care circulation and polymedia as vibrant matter
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-02-2016
DOI: 10.1111/GLOB.12109
Introduction – Negotiating Belonging: Migration and Generations
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2007
Ageing, migration and new media
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-04-2018
Abstract: The experiences of ageing for today’s older people present a striking contrast to those of the past. They are entering older age in a world that is characterised by complex mobilities and flows, in which large numbers of people are ageing in countries other than the one in which they were born and often at a distance from their closest family members. At the same time, new media are providing unprecedented opportunities to bring distant places and people together in new ways. These dramatic shifts are transforming the context within which older people provide and receive care. In this article, we argue that it has become both necessary and urgent for researchers and practitioners of ageing to reconsider their emphasis on the proximate care networks of older people, by incorporating closer attention to the increasingly global, transnational and virtual contexts within which ageing and aged care now routinely takes place.
Sex Knowledge and Sexual Attitudes Among Medical and Nursing Students
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-1999
DOI: 10.1046/J.1440-1614.1999.00549.X
Abstract: Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between background and sociodemographic variables, attitudes toward controversial aspects of human sexuality and sex knowledge among medical and nursing students. Method: The study design was a questionnaire-based survey of medical and nursing students in Western Australia. Participants were first-through fifth-year medical students at the University of Western Australia and first-through third-year undergraduate nursing students at Edith Cowan University. Outcome measures were students' attitudes toward controversial aspects of human sexuality expressed on a five-point Likert scale and a modified version of the Kinsey Institute/Roper Organization National Sex Knowledge Test. Results: A significant relationship was found between certain background and sociodemographic variables, sexual attitudes and sex knowledge. The background variable most strongly related to both attitudes and knowledge was frequency of attendance at religious services of any religious denomination during the past month, with those attending three or more times more likely to express negative attitudes and have lower sex knowledge scores. Lower sex knowledge was related to negative attitudes toward gay/lesbian/bisexual behaviour, masturbation, premarital sex and contraception. Other important background and sociodemographic variables related to negative attitudes were: never having experienced sexual intercourse right-wing political orientation lower family income gender and ethnicity. Conclusions: Negative attitudes toward controversial aspects of human sexuality and lower sex knowledge scores among medical and nursing students can be predicted on the basis of background and sociodemographic variables. Education aimed at increasing sex knowledge and modifying negative attitudes may increase students' ability to function more effectively as sexual history takers and sex counsellors.
“I Don’t Do Much in the Community as an Italian, but in My Family I Do”: A Critique of Symbolic Ethnicity through a Longitudinal Study of Second-Generation Italian Australians
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 12-2017
DOI: 10.1086/694683
‘More like a daughter than an employee’: the kinning process between migrant care workers, elderly care receivers and their extended families
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2017
Marias and marriage: ethnicity, gender and sexuality among Italo-Australian youth in Perth1
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-1999
DOI: 10.1177/144078339903500101
Abstract: Using an ethnographic account of weddings and network activities among Italo-Australian youth in Perth, and, in particular, a symbolic analysis of garters and bouquets, this paper explores the intersections of ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and reviews social scientific theories of ethnic identity and cultural transmission. By investigating the double standard-where men are free to be sexually active and women are not-it confronts some of the stereotypes about 'second generation Australians' and 'culture clash', female oppression and the control of sexuality. Of particular concern is the way that some Italo-Australian women perceive sexual freedom in Australian society. The paper argues that the moral community represented by the youth network and, in particular, the challenges posed by it to the traditional model of female honour, allow for significant generational changes in the construction of ethnic identity. By analysing how identities are constructed and articulated across difference, and how 'this kind of relativising' is 'embodied in the habitus [cf. Bourdieu 1977] of the second generation' (Bottomley 1992a: 132), the paper explodes homogeneous conceptions of what is Italian, and ltalo-Australian culture.
The best day of the week
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 19-03-2019
Abstract: Older people living in residential aged care facilities tend to be physically as well as socially inactive, which leads to poorer health and reduced wellbeing. A lack of recognition of the importance of social support, limited resources, lack of training and task-oriented work routines leave little time for staff to meet the social needs of residents. Through qualitative ethnographic fieldwork, this study investigates the potential for new technologies to enhance quality of life and facilitate meaningful engagement in physical and social activities among culturally and linguistically erse residents and staff in care facilities. A continuum from nonparticipation to full participation among residents was observed when Touch Screen Technology activities were implemented. Data indicate that resident’s engagement is impacted by five interdependent factors, including environmental, organisational, caregiver, patient, and management- & government-related. Findings show that new technologies can be used to increase meaningful physical and social engagement, including transcending language and cultural barriers. However, the successful application of new technologies to enhance quality of life is dependent on their integration into the daily routine and social relationships of staff and residents, with the full support of management. Guidelines governing the use of new technologies to support meaningful engagement of older people in residential care are lacking: this project highlights the importance of attention to the social relational dimensions of technology interventions to support best practice in their use.
TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES AND THE PROVISION OF MORAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRUTH AND DISTANCE
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-10-2007
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