Migration and care are normative in terms of the social expectations, obligations and
common-sense which they involve. Intergenerational care in Poland is recurrently
characterized as being highly binding in terms of filial responsibilities in home-based
care arrangements. The on-going high rates of emigration therefore ought to challenge
intergenerational care arrangements. The majority of research proves, however, that
migration does not dissolve migrants’ care obligations toward their relatives in the
emigration countries, but that they persist with some modifications and adaptations to
its distant character. Previous studies therefore connect migrants’, and to a lesser extent
their relatives’ in the emigration countries, care practices to the normativity of the distinct
“care culture’’ in Poland. This article explores the idea that practices and obligations of
intergenerational care are inherently tied to the social expectations and meanings attached to
migration. Twenty interviews with Polish migrants in Germany and ten interviews with their
relatives in Poland reveal how the binding character of familial care arrangements and high
rates of emigration can co-occur in that transnational personal relations, between migrants
and their non-migrant relatives, support the familial and home-based care arrangements
by relational adaptations. The adaptations involve (self-)exclusions from (among others)
mobility based on the intersection of previous migration experiences, the closeness of the
family relationship as well as generation and gender, placing close, female and immobile
family members (i.e. daughters) in a de-privileged position in transnational relations.
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