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Gender, generations and the family in international migration, edited by Albert Kraler, Eleonore Kofman, Martin Kohli and Camille Schmoll

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Gender, generations and the family in international migration

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edited by Albert Kraler, Eleonore Kofman, Martin Kohli and Camille Schmoll

IMISCOE Research

Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from - and sometimes ignorant of - each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divides. Fifteen chapters come up with a number of common themes. Collectively, the authors address the need to better understand the diversity of family-related migration and its resulting family forms and practices, to question, if not counter, simplistic assumptions about migrant families in public discourses, to study family migration from a mix of disciplinary perspectives at various levels and via different methodological approaches and to acknowledge the state's role in shaping family-related migration, practices and lives

1.Introduction: Issues and debates on family-related migration and the migrant family: A European perspective -- 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 -- 3.Marriages, arranged and forced: The UK debate -- 4.Filial obligations among immigrants and native Dutch: A comparison of perceptions and behaviour among ethnic groups and generations -- 5.Social construction of neglect: The case of unaccompanied minors from Morocco to Spain -- 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 -- 7.The transmission of labour commitment within families of migrant entrepreneurs in France and Spain -- 8.Spousal reunification among recent immigrants in Spain: Links with undocumented migration and the labour market --Section III Marriage migration and gender relations -- 9.Cross-border marriage as a migration strategy: Thai women in the Netherlands -- 10.Marriage across space and time among male migrants from Cameroon to Germany -- 11.'He's the Swiss citizen, I'm the foreign spouse': Binational marriages and the impact of family-related migration policies on gender relations -- Section IV Transnational family lives and practices -- 12.Transnational family life and female migration in Italy: One or multiple patterns? -- 13.Civic stratification, stratified reproduction and family solidarity: Strategies of Latino families in Milan -- 14.Gender and intergenerational issues in the circulation of highly skilled migrants: The case of Indian IT professionals -- 15.Negotiating transnational caring practices among migrant families