Conclusion

Abstract

Abstract The Conclusion synthesizes the insights that emerge from a communicative care perspective, suggesting their broad relevance by pointing out that language undergirds care in many contexts beyond transnational family life. In particular, the chapter draws attention to the materiality of language and its deep entanglements with global regimes of (im)mobility and political-economic structures. The discussion also highlights multifunctionality and temporality, suggesting that these two properties of language make it a particularly forceful tool for transformative work. The book concludes by calling readers to consider how they might take action to support the struggles of transnational families for a world in which ways of living-together are a matter of self-determination rather than exploitation.