‘Doing’ Teamwork as ‘Doing’ Family: Researching Transnational Migrant Families through Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Valentina Mazzucato; Bilisuma Dito; Karlijn Haagsman

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-11108-2_16

‘Doing’ Teamwork as ‘Doing’ Family: Researching Transnational Migrant Families through Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Valentina Mazzucato^*, Bilisuma Dito, Karlijn Haagsman

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What makes or breaks interdisciplinary collaborations is how well a team can work together. In this chapter, we focus on the work that is behind teamwork. We explain what ‘doing’ interdisciplinary teamwork entails by drawing parallels with the subject of our research: ‘doing’ family. We draw our examples from the transnational child raising arrangements projects (tcra and tcraf-eu), investigating how transnational migrant families ‘do family’ when their members are separated by great geographical distances. Families are not just people related by blood ties or marriage but are defined and held together through the ‘work’ of commitments and obligations consisting of communication, trust, and emotional work. This chapter draws on these elements—communication, trust, and emotions—to unpack the work involved in ‘doing’ teamwork. Teamwork in interdisciplinary research has been discussed but not often in terms of the personal and emotional work that it entails.keywordsinterdisciplinary teamworkemotional workcollaborationcommunicationtrust.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle
Subtitle of host publication	Learning by Example in Humanities and Social Science Research
Editors	Karen Bijsterveld, Aagje Swinnen
Publisher	Palgrave
Pages	293-307
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031111082
ISBN (Print)	9783031111075
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11108-2_16
Publication status	Published - Jan 2023

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Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle: Learning by Example in Humanities and Social Science Research
Bijsterveld, K. (ed.) & Swinnen, A. (ed.), 2023, Palgrave Macmillan. 338 p.
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Mazzucato, V., Dito, B., & Haagsman, K. (2023). ‘Doing’ Teamwork as ‘Doing’ Family: Researching Transnational Migrant Families through Interdisciplinary Collaboration. In K. Bijsterveld, & A. Swinnen (Eds.), Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle: Learning by Example in Humanities and Social Science Research (pp. 293-307). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11108-2_16

Mazzucato, Valentina ; Dito, Bilisuma ; Haagsman, Karlijn. / ‘Doing’ Teamwork as ‘Doing’ Family : Researching Transnational Migrant Families through Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle: Learning by Example in Humanities and Social Science Research. editor / Karen Bijsterveld ; Aagje Swinnen. Palgrave, 2023. pp. 293-307

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Mazzucato, V , Dito, B & Haagsman, K 2023, ‘Doing’ Teamwork as ‘Doing’ Family: Researching Transnational Migrant Families through Interdisciplinary Collaboration. in K Bijsterveld & A Swinnen (eds), Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle: Learning by Example in Humanities and Social Science Research. Palgrave, pp. 293-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11108-2_16

‘Doing’ Teamwork as ‘Doing’ Family: Researching Transnational Migrant Families through Interdisciplinary Collaboration. / Mazzucato, Valentina ; Dito, Bilisuma ; Haagsman, Karlijn.
Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle: Learning by Example in Humanities and Social Science Research. ed. / Karen Bijsterveld; Aagje Swinnen. Palgrave, 2023. p. 293-307.

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