Abstract
Abstract Chapter 1 examines how public rhetoric about migration constitutes transnational family life as consequential for the nation. Over three decades, state discourses have consistently depicted transnational families in economic terms. Cross-border care simply consists of unidirectional transfers of money from migrants—portrayed as male breadwinners—to their dependent relatives. This imaginary of cross-border care relies on figures of personhood rooted in heteropatriarchal models of family life. Through these discourses, the Salvadoran state seeks to incorporate migrants and their remittances into nation-building projects aligned with structural adjustment policies. Dutiful family provision is thereby converted into relational neoliberal personhood, with transnational family care becoming the ground upon which the nation stands or falls. These dominant imaginaries powerfully shape the ways that families enact transnational care and the forms of resistance they engage.
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