Gender, Migration and the Intergenerational Transfer of Human Wellbeing

• Main Author: Wright, Katie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Women in development.; Identity politics.; Globalization.; Political economy.; Citizenship.; Development and Gender.; Politics and Gender.; International Political Economy.

This book discusses how human wellbeing is constructed and transferred intergenerationally in the context of international migration. Research on intergenerational transmission (IGT) has tended to focus on material asset transfers prompting calls to balance material asset analysis with that of psych...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Introduction
• 2: Intergenerational Transfers over the Life Course: Addressing Gendered and Temporal Complexities
• 3: Intergenerational Transfers, Migration and Human Wellbeing
• 4: Contextualising Intergenerational Transmission and Human Wellbeing in London
• 5: Intergenerational Transmission and Human Wellbeing: Latin American Migrant Women and their Daughters in London
• 6: Intergenerational Relations and Gendered Transmissions: Conflicts, Reparations and Solidarities
• 7: Conclusions and Implications for Theory and Policy.