The New Diversity of Family Life in Europe - Mobile Ethnic Groups and Flexible Boundaries

The authors focus on families who organize their lives in transnational social spaces within and at the outer borders of Europe, to offer a new perspective on transnational family life and to advance the knowledge on borders drawn by social inequality, discrimination and political exclusion. They also discuss social mobility as inheriting different life worlds, while crossing borders. The research on the socialization of children, raised in different societies provides a better understanding of the new generations in Europe from the beginning of the XXI c. The variety of methods presented in this book is also a contribution to link Western and Eastern European perspectives as well as sociology and anthropology in order to capture a wider spectrum of social reality.

List of contents

Transnational Family Life.- Urban Sociology.- European Sociology.

About the author

Dr. Banu Çıtlak, Assoc. Prof., University of Applied Science and Arts Dortmund, Germany.Dr. Sebastian Kurtenbach, research assistant, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG), Bielefeld University, Germany.Megan Lueneburg, fulbright researcher, architect, curator, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.Dr. Meglena Zlatkova, Assoc. Prof., Department of Ethnology, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Summary

The authors focus on families who organize their lives in transnational social spaces within and at the outer borders of Europe, to offer a new perspective on transnational family life and to advance the knowledge on borders drawn by social inequality, discrimination and political exclusion. They also discuss social mobility as inheriting different life worlds, while crossing borders. The research on the socialization of children, raised in different societies provides a better understanding of the new generations in Europe from the beginning of the XXI c. The variety of methods presented in this book is also a contribution to link Western and Eastern European perspectives as well as sociology and anthropology in order to capture a wider spectrum of social reality.

Product details

• Assisted by: Banu Çitlak (Editor), Sebastia Kurtenbach (Editor), Sebastian Kurtenbach (Editor), Megan Lueneburg (Editor), Megan Lueneburg et al (Editor), Meglena Zlatkova (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9783658178567
• ISBN: 978-3-658-17856-7
• No. of pages: 235
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 12 mm x 213 mm
• Weight: 323 g
• Illustrations: VI, 235 p. 24 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Migration, B, Family, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Sociology: family & relationships, Family Law, research methodology, Social research & statistics, families, Emigration and immigration, Families—Social aspects, Sociology—Research, Sociological Methods, Migration;Roma;Family;Transnational social spaces;Childhood