Romanian Transnational Families - Gender, Family Practices and Difference

This book explores novel aspects of transnational family research through the study of Romanian transnational families. A range of topics are covered, including the impact of lodging type upon life strategies; understudied elements in transnational relationships; gender roles in transnational communication; multinational relationships; the role of polymedia in the formation of couples; and the lives of the children of Romanian transnational families. The author presents the experiences of 'leavers' as well as of 'stayers'; of the 'highly-skilled' as well as the 'low-skilled'; that of women and that of men - through individual testimonies and couple interviews.
Romanian Transnational Families will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, anthropology and geography.
Chapter 3 and Chapter 5 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

 

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Methodological challenges in transnational family research.- 3. Two perspectives on family life through the lens of lodging type.- 4. "Staying in touch" - views from abroad and from home.- 5. Romanian children in multiple worlds.- 6. Afterword: what next for Romanian transnational family research?.

About the author

Viorela Ducu is Associate Researcher at the Centre for Population Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania. 

Product details

• Authors: Viorela Ducu
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2018
• EAN: 9783319902418
• ISBN: 978-3-31-990241-8
• No. of pages: 106
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 11 mm x 220 mm
• Weight: 250 g
• Illustrations: IX, 106 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; Migration, C, Gender Studies, Sociology, Family, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Migration, immigration & emigration, Sociology: family & relationships, Family Law, families, Emigration and immigration, Families—Social aspects