Interviews with left-behind families

We couldn’t just clap our hands and Dad would come up (RO)

  Respondent ID 1.1 Age: 19 1.2 Sex: F 1.3 Parent(s) away: Father 1.4 Parent(s) moved abroad: for 11 years 1.5 Respondent

You cannot hug the computer, it could break (RO)

  Respondent ID 1.1. Age: 12  2. Sex: F 3. Parent(s) away: Father. 4. Country: Spain. I: How long did he stay

I’m not there physically, but mentally and spiritually I’m with them (RO)

1. Respondent ID 1. 1. Age: 17 1. 2. Sex: M. 1. 3. Parent(s) away: Both 1. 4. Parent(s) moved abroad: Father

When I’m out or I go to a party he calls me twenty times a day (RO)

1. Respondent ID 1. 1. Age: 18. 1. 2. Sex: M. 1. 3. Parent(s) away: Father 1. 4. Country: Spain. 1. 5.

We had all lived in Spain before (RO)

1. Respondent ID 1. 1. Age: 16. 1. 2. Sex: F. 1. 3. Parent(s) away: Both I: Are they both in the

She told me “you may call me anytime, I’ll be here” (RO)

1. Respondent ID 1. 1. Age: 17 1. 2.Sex: F 1. 3. Parent(s) away: Both parents to Spain. 1.4. Country: Spain 1.

The longing for his kids was too deep (RO)

1. Family situation. I: How many children do you have? R: Two. I: A boy and a girl? R: Two boys. I:

He does for me everything I want (RO)

1. Respondent ID 1. 1. Age: 17 1. 2. Sex. M. 1. 3. Parent(s) away: Father 1. 4. Parent(s) moved abroad: 14

I always asked him when he would come home (RO)

1. Respondent ID 1. 1. Age: 10 1. 2. Sex: M. 1. 3. Parent(s) away: Father. 1. 4. Parent(s) moved abroad: 11-12

If I don’t talk to him for an hour or maximum two… (RO)

1. Respondent ID 1. 1. Age. 12 1. 2. Sex. M 1. 3. Parent(s) away: Father 1. 4. Country: Spain. 1. 5.