Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility

Global Perspectives through the Life Course

AvMajella Kilkey,Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

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Beskrivning

In an age of migration and mobility many aspects of contemporary family life – from biological reproduction to marriage, from child-rearing to care of the elderly - take place against a backdrop of intensified movement across a range of spatial scales from the global to the local.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 27 mm
Vikt:646 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
Antal sidor:358
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137520975

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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