Materialising Care across Borders: Sent Things and Family Ties between Sweden and Ukraine
Journal: Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Year: 2021

This article is an exploration of transnational family links and how they are materialised. Based on interviews with Ukrainian migrants living in Sweden, we discuss different dimensions of the everyday practices of sending things back and forth between family members. We find that what these packages embody and represent are more complex than tropes of economic need, obligation and responsibility allow for. Of course, in many senses they do reveal stories of highly gendered practices of care and