Migrant Families and Transcultural Dynamics - Resources, Gender Relations and Family Structures

Migration processes affect migrants' families and family relations - in complex and diverse ways. Family fragmentation lasting for years or even decades, access to citizenship and welfare state resources change concepts of parenting and care as well as gender relations.
In this volume, authors from Europe, the MENA region and North America discuss the diversity and dynamics of migrant families, including the individual and collective challenges, strategies and agencies. They specially focus on gender dimensions and crisis intervention.

About the author

Lydia Potts (Dr. rer. pol.) lehrt an der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. Sie ist Leiterin der Arbeitsgruppe »Migration – Gender – Politics«.Ulrike Lingen-Ali (Dr. phil.), geb. 1971, lehrt am Institut für Pädagogik an der Universität Oldenburg. Ihre Schwerpunkte sind migrationsgesellschaftliche Geschlechterverhältnisse und Zugehörigkeitsordnungen, Fluchtverhältnisse, Orientalismus, Othering und Intersektionalität.

Summary

Migration processes affect migrants' families and family relations – in complex and diverse ways. Family fragmentation lasting for years or even decades, access to citizenship and welfare state resources change concepts of parenting and care as well as gender relations.In this volume, authors from Europe, the MENA region and North America discuss the diversity and dynamics of migrant families, including the individual and collective challenges, strategies and agencies. They specially focus on gender dimensions and crisis intervention.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ulrike Koopmann (Editor), Ulrike Lingen-Ali (Editor), Lydia Potts (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.11.2026
• EAN: 9783837636451
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-3645-1
• No. of pages: 260
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: migration - macht - bildung; migration - macht - bildung
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Soziologie: Familie und Beziehungen, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Zuwanderung, Wanderung (soziologisch), Migration (soziologisch), Migration; Violence; Single Parents; Lone Parents; Family Fragmentation; Citizenship; Welfare; Europe; North America; MENA Region; Crisis Intervention; Sociology of Family; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Sociology