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This chapter examines how dimensions of trust and reciprocity figure as essential components of transnational care arrangements among Central and Eastern European migrant parents in Sweden. The research draws on 22 qualitative interviews with migrant fathers and mothers. The results show four patterns of care triangles shaped by gender and intergenerational relationships. The quality of the relationships in these care triangles is an important aspect of arranging care for children transnationally. The parents define the carers as trusted individuals with whom they have built mutual, supportive relationships over a long time. There is a clear gendered pattern in transnational care arrangements, with mothers and female relatives, particularly grandmothers, assuming the essential care responsibilities. When the leading migrant is a single mother, the care triangle includes a caring network wider than the extended family and, to a greater extent, also the children themselves. |
