Desire, obligation, and familial love: mothers, daughters, and communication technology in the Tongan diaspora

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- "So Far Apart, Yet Too Connected" -- The Tongan Social Field -- Chapter 2 -- Reterritorializing the Tongan Social Field -- Melbourne -- Chapter 3 -- Boys Go, Girls Stay -- Chapter 4 -- Diasporic Gifts -- Chapter 5 -- Social Media in the Everyday Lives of Mothers and Daughters -- Chapter 6 -- Making Things Happen -- Communication Flows and Diasporic Drama -- Chapter 7 -- Conclusion -- Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Blank Page.

"Filled with rich, intimate portrayals of diasporic women's everyday lives and the everyday politics of familial relationships, Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love will appeal to students and scholars of the anthropology of migration, of communication technologies and social media, and of gender and familial relationships, as well as to those interested in fieldwork methodology, transnational and migration studies, and Pacific Studies"--