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Family-related migration is moving to the center of political debates on migration, integration, and multiculturalism in Europe. Still, strands of academic research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from--and sometimes ignorant of--each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divide. Collectively, the authors address the need to better understand the diversity of family-related migration and its resulting family forms and practices, to question simplistic assumptions about migrant families in public discourse, to study family migration from a mix of disciplinary perspectives, and to acknowledge the state's role in shaping family-related migration, practices, and lives.
List of contents
Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration - 2 Table of contents - 6 Preface - 10 1 Introduction Issues and debates on family-related migration and the migrant family: A European perspective - 14 Section I The family as a moral and social order - 56 2 Sex and the regulation of belonging:Dutch family migration policies in the contextof changing family norms - 58 3 Marriages, arranged and forced: The UK debate - 78 4 Filial obligations among immigrants and native Dutch: A comparison of perceptions and behaviour among ethnic groups and generations - 100 5 Social construction of neglect: The case of unaccompanied minors from Morocco to Spain - 122 Section II Gender, generation and work in the migrant family - 140 6 The problem of 'human capital':Gender, place and immigrant household strategies of reskilling in Vancouver - 142 7 The transmission of labour commitment within families of migrant entrepreneurs in France and Spain - 164 8 Spousal reunification among recent immigrants in Spain: Links with undocumented migration and the labour market - 194 Section III Marriage migration and gender relations - 220 9 Cross-border marriage as a migration strategy:Thai women in the Netherlands - 222 10 Marriage across space and time among male migrants from Cameroon to Germany - 244 11 'He's the Swiss citizen, I'm the foreign spouse':Binational marriages and the impact of family-related migration policies on gender relations - 266 Section IV Transnational family lives and practices - 286 12 Transnational family life and female migrationin Italy: One or multiple patterns? - 288 13 Civic stratification, stratified reproduction and family solidarity: Strategies of Latino families in Milan - 314 14 Gender and intergenerational issues in the circulation of highly skilled migrants:The case of Indian IT professionals - 336 15 Negotiating transnational caring practices among migrant families - 356 List of contributors - 375 Index - 380 Other IMISCOE titles - 396
About the author
Albert Kraler is a researcher at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development in Vienna and associate lecturer at the University of Vienna. Eleonore Kofman is professor of gender, migration and citizenship at Middlesex University, where she also serves as co-director of the Social Policy Research Centre. Martin Kohli is professor of sociology at the European University Institute in Florence and director of the Research Group on Aging and the Life Course at the Free University of Berlin. Camille Schmoll is assistant professor of human geography at Paris Diderot University.
