Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration

book: Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2013

Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration

Edited by: Albert Kraler , Eleonore Kofman , Martin Kohli and Camille Schmoll

In the series IMISCOE Research

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048513611

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Albert Kraler is a researcher at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development in Vienna and assiciate lecturer at the University of Vienna. Eleonore Kofman is professor of gender, migration, and citizenship at Middlesex University where she also serves as codirector of the Social Policy Research Center. 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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface Albert Kraler Open Access Download PDF	9
1. Introduction Issues and debates on family-related migration and the migrant family: A European perspective Eleonore Kofman, Albert Kraler, Martin Kohli and Camille Schmoll Open Access Download PDF	13
Section I. The family as a moral and social order
2. Sex and the regulation of belonging: Dutch family migration policies in the context of changing family norms Sarah van Walsum Open Access Download PDF	57
3. Marriages, arranged and forced: The UK debate Ralph Grillo Open Access Download PDF	77
4. Filial obligations among immigrants and native Dutch: A comparison of perceptions and behaviour among ethnic groups and generations Djamila Schans and Helga de Valk Open Access Download PDF	99
5. Social construction of neglect: The case of unaccompanied minors from Morocco to Spain Núria Empez Vidal Open Access Download PDF	121
Section II. Gender, generation and work in the migrant family
6. The problem of ‘human capital’: Gender, place and immigrant household strategies of reskilling in Vancouver Gillian Creese, Isabel Dyck and Arlene Tiger McLaren Open Access Download PDF	141
7. The transmission of labour commitment within families of migrant entrepreneurs in France and Spain Christine Catarino and Laura Oso Open Access Download PDF	163
8. Spousal reunification among recent immigrants in Spain: Links with undocumented migration and the labour market Amparo González-Ferrer Open Access Download PDF	193
Section III. Marriage migration and gender relations
9. Cross-border marriage as a migration strategy: Thai women in the Netherlands Panitee Suksomboon Open Access Download PDF	221
10. Marriage across space and time among male migrants from Cameroon to Germany Annett Fleischer Open Access Download PDF	243
11. ‘He’s the Swiss citizen, I’m the foreign spouse’: Binational marriages and the impact of family-related migration policies on gender relations Yvonne Riaño Open Access Download PDF	265
Section IV. Transnational family lives and practices
12. Transnational family life and female migration in Italy: One or multiple patterns? Ludovica Banfi and Paolo Boccagni Open Access Download PDF	287
13. Civic stratification, stratified reproduction and family solidarity: Strategies of Latino families in Milan Paola Bonizzoni Open Access Download PDF	313
14. Gender and intergenerational issues in the circulation of highly skilled migrants: The case of Indian IT professionals Aurélie Varrel Open Access Download PDF	335
15. Negotiating transnational caring practices among migrant families Venetia Evergeti and Louise Ryan Open Access Download PDF	355
List of contributors Open Access Download PDF	374
Index Open Access Download PDF	379

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 404

eBook

Published: July 15, 2012
ISBN: 9789048513611