Majella Kilkey is Reader in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her current research centers on migration and families. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Gender Studies Department at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Her research interests include migration, transnationalism, gender studies and care work.

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• Introduction. Family life in an age of migration and mobility: introducing a global and family life course perspective; Majella Kilkey and Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck1. Mobilities and communication technologies: transforming care in family life; Loretta Baldassar2. Everyday practices of living in multiple places and mobilities: transnational, transregional and intra-communal multi-local families; Michaela Schier3. Polymedia communication among transnational families: what are the long-term consequences for migration?; Mirca Madianou4. Travelling to the United States for fertility services: push and pull factors; Lauren Jade Martin5. Transnational surrogacy and ‘kinning’ rituals in India; Amrita Pande6. Marriage migration policy as a social reproduction system: The South Korean experience; Gyuchan Kim and Majella Kilkey7. Strangers in Paradise?  Migrant Italian mothers in Norway; Lise Widding Isaksen8. Transnational mothering and the law: Ghanaian women’s pathways to family reunion and consequences for family life; Miranda Poeze and Valentina Mazzucato9. Fatherhood and masculinities in post socialist Europe: the challenges of transnational migration; Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck and Helma Lutz10. Swedish retirement migrants in Spain: mobility and eldercare in an ageing Europe; Anna Gavanas and Ines Calzada11. Contrasts in ageing and agency in family migratory contexts: a comparison of Albanian and Latvian older migrants; Russell King, Julie Vullnetari, Aija Lulle and Eralba Cela12. Defamilialization of whom? Re-thinking defamilialization in the light of global care chains and the transnational circulation of care; Florence Degavre and Laura Merla13.The contested meaning of care in migration law; Sarah van WalsumConclusions; Majella Kilkey and Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck

Majella Kilkey is Reader in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her current research centers on migration and families. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Gender Studies Department at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Her research interests include migration, transnationalism, gender studies and care work.

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• Introduction. Family life in an age of migration and mobility: introducing a global and family life course perspective; Majella Kilkey and Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck1. Mobilities and communication technologies: transforming care in family life; Loretta Baldassar2. Everyday practices of living in multiple places and mobilities: transnational, transregional and intra-communal multi-local families; Michaela Schier3. Polymedia communication among transnational families: what are the long-term consequences for migration?; Mirca Madianou4. Travelling to the United States for fertility services: push and pull factors; Lauren Jade Martin5. Transnational surrogacy and ‘kinning’ rituals in India; Amrita Pande6. Marriage migration policy as a social reproduction system: The South Korean experience; Gyuchan Kim and Majella Kilkey7. Strangers in Paradise?  Migrant Italian mothers in Norway; Lise Widding Isaksen8. Transnational mothering and the law: Ghanaian women’s pathways to family reunion and consequences for family life; Miranda Poeze and Valentina Mazzucato9. Fatherhood and masculinities in post socialist Europe: the challenges of transnational migration; Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck and Helma Lutz10. Swedish retirement migrants in Spain: mobility and eldercare in an ageing Europe; Anna Gavanas and Ines Calzada11. Contrasts in ageing and agency in family migratory contexts: a comparison of Albanian and Latvian older migrants; Russell King, Julie Vullnetari, Aija Lulle and Eralba Cela12. Defamilialization of whom? Re-thinking defamilialization in the light of global care chains and the transnational circulation of care; Florence Degavre and Laura Merla13.The contested meaning of care in migration law; Sarah van WalsumConclusions; Majella Kilkey and Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck

Majella Kilkey is Reader in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her current research centers on migration and families. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Gender Studies Department at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Her research interests include migration, transnationalism, gender studies and care work.

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• Introduction. Family life in an age of migration and mobility: introducing a global and family life course perspective; Majella Kilkey and Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck1. Mobilities and communication technologies: transforming care in family life; Loretta Baldassar2. Everyday practices of living in multiple places and mobilities: transnational, transregional and intra-communal multi-local families; Michaela Schier3. Polymedia communication among transnational families: what are the long-term consequences for migration?; Mirca Madianou4. Travelling to the United States for fertility services: push and pull factors; Lauren Jade Martin5. Transnational surrogacy and ‘kinning’ rituals in India; Amrita Pande6. Marriage migration policy as a social reproduction system: The South Korean experience; Gyuchan Kim and Majella Kilkey7. Strangers in Paradise?  Migrant Italian mothers in Norway; Lise Widding Isaksen8. Transnational mothering and the law: Ghanaian women’s pathways to family reunion and consequences for family life; Miranda Poeze and Valentina Mazzucato9. Fatherhood and masculinities in post socialist Europe: the challenges of transnational migration; Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck and Helma Lutz10. Swedish retirement migrants in Spain: mobility and eldercare in an ageing Europe; Anna Gavanas and Ines Calzada11. Contrasts in ageing and agency in family migratory contexts: a comparison of Albanian and Latvian older migrants; Russell King, Julie Vullnetari, Aija Lulle and Eralba Cela12. Defamilialization of whom? Re-thinking defamilialization in the light of global care chains and the transnational circulation of care; Florence Degavre and Laura Merla13.The contested meaning of care in migration law; Sarah van WalsumConclusions; Majella Kilkey and Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck