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Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility : Global Perspectives through the Life Course / edited by Majella Kilkey, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, 2662-2610
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration.
- Sociology.
- Social groups.
- Family policy.
- Social structure.
- Equality.
- Human Migration.
- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
- Children, Youth and Family Policy.
- Social Structure.
- Local Subjects:
- Human Migration.
- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
- Children, Youth and Family Policy.
- Social Structure.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XXIX, 358 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Summary:
- In an age of migration and mobility many aspects of contemporary family life – from biological reproduction to marriage, from child-rearing to care of the elderly - take place against a backdrop of intensified movement across a range of spatial scales from the global to the local. This insightful book analyzes the opportunities and challenges this poses for families and for academic, empirical and policy understandings of ‘the family’ on a global level, including case studies from Europe, India, the Philippines, South Korea, the United States and Australia. With chapters on international reproductive tourism, transnational parenting, ‘mail-order brides’ and ‘sunset migration’, it examines the implications of migration and mobility for families at different stages of the life course. Moreover, it brings together leading international scholars to connect a fragmented field of research, and in so doing enables an interdisciplinary exchange, generating new insights for theory, policy and empirical analysis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137520999
- 113752099X
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