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The family in question : immigrant and ethnic minorities in multicultural Europe / edited by Ralph Grillo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grillo, Ralph, Author.
- Series:
- IMISCOE research.
- IMISCOE research
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrant families--Europe--Congresses.
- Immigrant families.
- Ethnicity--Europe--Congresses.
- Ethnicity.
- Immigrants--Europe--Social conditions--Congresses.
- Immigrants.
- Multiculturalism--Europe--Congresses.
- Multiculturalism.
- Minority families--Europe--Congresses.
- Minority families.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The family lives of immigrants and ethnic minority populations have become central to arguments about the right and wrong ways of living in multicultural societies. While the characteristic cultural practices of such families have long been scrutinized by the media and policy makers, these groups themselves are beginning to reflect on how to manage their family relationships in a world where migration is a transnational piece of the pluralized global puzzle. Exploring case studies from Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Australia, The Family in Question explores how those in public policy often dangerously reflect the popular imagination, xenophobically stereotyping immigrants and their families, rather than recognizing the complex changes taking place within the global immigrant community.
- Contents:
- The family in dispute : insiders and outsiders / Ralph Grillo
- Inside and outside : contrasting perspectives on the dynamics of kinship and marriage in contemporary South Asian transnational networks / Roger Ballard
- "For women and children!" : the family and immigration politics in Scandinavia / Anniken Hagelund
- Defining "family" and bringing it together : the ins and outs of family reunification in Portugal / Maria Lucinda Fonseca and Meghann Ormond
- Debating cultural difference : Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam and women / Erik Snel and Femke Stock
- Family dynamics, uses of religion and inter-ethnic relations within the Portuguese cultural ecology / Susana Bastos and José Bastos
- The dream of family : Muslim migrants in Austria / Anna Stepien
- Who cares? : "external," "internal" and "mediator" debates about South Asian elders' needs / Kanwal Mand
- Italian families in Switzerland : sites of belonging or "golden cages?" perceptions and discourses inside and outside the migrant family / Susanne Wessendorf
- Dealing with "that thing" : female circumcision and Sierra Leonean refugee girls in the UK / Radha Rajkotia
- Socio-cultural dynamics in intermarriage in Spain : beyond simplistic notions of hybridity / Dan Rodríguez-García
- Debating culture across distance : transnational families and the obligation to care / Loretta Baldassar.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-3.0 Unported CC BY-NC 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9786611787752
- 9781281787750
- 1281787752
- 9789048501533
- 9048501539
- OCLC:
- 476252072
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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