Gender, Family, and Adaptation of Migrants in Europe A Life Course Perspective /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Vlase, Ionela (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Voicu, Bogdan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Economic development.; Social change.; Emigration and immigration.; Women in development.; Social groups.; Family.; Identity politics.; Cultural policy.; Development and Social Change.; Migration.; Development and Gender.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Politics and Gender.; Cultural Policy and Politics.

This volume documents the life uncertainties revealed by migrants' biographies. For international migrants, life journeys are less conventional or patterned, while their family, work, and educational trajectories are simultaneously more fragmented and intermingled. The authors discuss the chall...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Uncertain biographies? A focus on migrants' life courses - Ionela Vlase and Bogdan Voicu
• 2. Fringed life-satisfaction? A life-course perspective on the impact of international migration on subjective well-being - Bogdan Voicu
• 3. 'Walking Alongside' Polish Migrants in Ireland - Individual Life Courses in the Context of Political, Social and Economic Change - Justyna Salamońska
• 4. 'And we are still here': Life courses and life conditions of Italian, Spanish and Portuguese retirees in Switzerland -Claudio Bolzman and Giacomo Vagni
• 5. Gendered migratory pathways: Exploring the work trajectories of long-term Romanian migrants- Alin Croitoru
• 6. Fragmented careers, gender, and migration during the Great Recession- Francesca Alice Vianello
• 7. Immigration, transition to parenthood and parenting - Anca Bejenaru
• 8. Women's stories of migration: Youth, personal agency, and linked lives - Ana Maria Preoteasa
• 9. Men's migration, adulthood, and the performance of masculinities - Ionela Vlase
• 10. Conclusion: Setting up an agenda for life course perspective in international migration Bogdan Voicu and Ionela Vlase.