Making Multicultural Families in Europe Gender and Intergenerational Relations /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Crespi, Isabella (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Giada Meda, Stefania (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Merla, Laura (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Subjects: Social groups.; Family.; Culture.; Sociology.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Sociology of Culture.; Gender Studies.

This edited collection explores family relations in two types of 'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families. Based on in-depth qualitative fieldwork and large surveys, the contributors analyse gender and intergenerational relations from a variety of standpoints...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Editors' introduction: Aims, scope and structure of the book; Laura Merla, Stefania Giada Meda, Isabella Crespi
• 2. Introducing transnational and mixed families; Stefania Giada Meda & Isabella Crespi
• Part I: Multi-ethnic families: Negotiating Difference across Gender and Generations
• 3. Global householding' in mixed families: the case of Thai migrant women in Belgium; Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot & Laura Merla
• 4. 'Doing gender' across cultures: Gender negotiations in bi-national couple relationships; Benedicte Brahic
• 5. Reversal of the Gender Order? Male Marriage Migration to Germany by Turkish Men: new forms of gendered transnationalization of migrant offsprings in Europe; Ursula Apitzsch
• 6. Comparing sibling ties in inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic families in Germany; Ebru Balaban, Dafina Kurti & Jara Kampmann
• 7. Intercultural Negotiations over a Newborn: the case of Persians in the United Kingdom; Ali Amirmoayed
• Part II: Transnational families: managing care and intimate relationships at a distance
• 8. Gender and Care in Transnational Families: Empowerment, Change and Tradition; Lise Widding Isaksen
• 9. Intimacies of power in the circulation of care: making gender across generations. Transnational Andean families in Quito and Madrid; Gregory Dallemagne
• 10. "And They Shall Be One Flesh...?": Gender convergence of family roles in transnational families of Ukrainian migrant women; Alissa V. Tolstokorova
• 11. Intergenerational Solidarity in Romanian Transnational Families; Mihaela Hărăguș & Viorela Telegdi-Csetri
• 12. Transnational families in Lithuania: multi-dimensionality and reorganization of relationships; Irena Juozeliūnienė, Irma Budginaitė & Indrė Bielevičiūtė
• 13. Not fit for migration with teenage children - Polish transnational immigrant families in Ireland; Beata Sokolowska
• 14. Distant relationships in transnational families and kinship networks: The case of Turkish migrants in Germany; Eveline Reisenauer
• 15. Migration Matters: Insights into intergenerational Solidarity Patterns in Europe; Ronny König, Bettina Isengard, & Marc Szydlik.