Overview

This Handbook is a timely and critical intervention into debates on changing family dynamics in the face of globalization, population migration and uneven mobilities. By capturing the diversity of family ‘types’, ‘arrangements’ and ‘strategies’ across a global setting, the volume highlights how migration is inextricably linked to complex familial relationships, often in supportive and nurturing ways, but also violent and oppressive at other times. Featuring state-of-the-art reviews from leading scholars, the Handbook attends to cross-cutting themes such as gender relations, intergenerational relationships, social inequalities and social mobility. The chapters cover a wide range of subjects, from forced migration and displacement, to expatriatism, labour migration, transnational marriage, education, LGBTQI families, digital technology and mobility regimes. By highlighting the complexity of the migration-family nexus, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for researchers, scholars and students in the fields of human geography, sociology, anthropology and social policy. Policymakers and practitioners working on family relations and gender policy will also benefit from reading this Handbook.

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Author:   Johanna Waters ,  Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781789908725

ISBN 10:   1789908728
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   24 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Migration and the Family 1 Johanna L. Waters and Brenda S.A. Yeoh PART I GENDER RELATIONS AND GENDER SUBJECTIVITIES 2 Nanny families and the making of gender (in)equality 20 Rosie Cox, Terese Anving and Sara Eldén 3 Transnational marriage migration: agency, structures and intimate gendered governmentality 42 Neil Amber Judge and Margaret Walton-Roberts 4 Nation, gender and location: understanding transnational families in the face of violence 65 Biftu Yousuf and Jennifer Hyndman 5 Vietnamese masculinities in transition: negotiating manhood in the context of female labour migration 86 Lan Anh Hoang 6 The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media 107 Earvin Charles Cabalquinto and Yang Hu PART II AGE AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS 7 Mobility and intergenerational transfers of capital: narrating expatriate and globally mobile children’s perspectives 130 Sin Yee Koh and I Lin Sin 8 Young people, intergenerationality and the familial reproduction of transnational migrations and im/mobilities 151 Caitríona Ní Laoire 9 Split households and migration in the Global South: gender and intergenerational perspectives 173 C. Cindy Fan 10 Negotiating long-distance caring relations: migrants in the UK and their families in Poland 197 Weronika Kloc-Nowak and Louise Ryan 11 Analysing youth migrations through the lens of generation 218 Rhondeni Kikon and Roy Huijsmans 12 Unaccompanied child migrants and family relationships 236 Katie Willis, Sue Clayton and Anna Gupta PART III POWER, SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL MOBILITY 13 Families in educational migration: strategies, investments and emotions 257 Johanna L. Waters and Zhe Wang 14 Privileged migration and the family: family matters in corporate expatriation 279 Sophie Cranston and George Tan 15 Not as safe as houses: experiences of domestic violence among international migrant women 298 Cathy McIlwaine 16 Academic mobility and the family 320 Yanbo Hao and Maggi W.H. Leung 17 The heterosexual family ideal and its limitations for bi-national same-sex family formations 340 Claire Fletcher PART IV SPATIALITIES AND TEMPORALITIES 18 Migrant family separation, reunification and recalibration 366 Denise L. Spitzer and Sara Torres 19 ‘Maybe in the future I’ll have two homes’: temporalities of migration and family life among Vietnamese people in London 385 Annabelle Wilkins20 Offshoring social reproduction: low-wage labour circulation and the separation of work and family life 403 Thomas Saetre Jakobsen, Sam Scott and Johan Fredrik Rye 21 Growing over time: left-behind children in the past three decades 425 Theodora Lam 22 Transnational families and mobility regimes 445 Franchesca Morais and Brenda S.A. Yeoh Index 466

Reviews

‘The past few decades have witnessed important theoretical advances to previous understandings of how families weather and are central to engagement in global migration processes. At the same time, the world has changed in fundamental ways, including the introduction of new communication technologies and increasingly bifurcated possibilities for mobility between those with and without social and financial capital. Taking these changes as their starting point, the chapters in this handbook provide important insight for understanding contemporary transnational family life. Covering topics ranging from intimacy and home-making to professional and educational migratory flows to left-behind youth and temporalities and the life-cycle, this comprehensive volume highlights key intersections to pay attention to and continue exploring in order to better understand the complex social processes involved at the intersection of family life and global mobility regimes.’ -- Nicole Newendorp, Harvard University, US ‘Few things are more central to migration projects than the family, yet rarely in simple ways. This Handbook presents the transnational family in all of its complexity and multiplicity, tracing its diverse meanings over time, across space and generations. Inequalities and power dynamics are deeply woven into family relations, yet migration also generates novel familial arrangements and subjectivities. The rich contributions span a range of geographical contexts and adopt feminist, agency-centred and grounded approaches to crucially overturn long-standing normative assumptions about transnational families. The Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the personal and societal impacts of migration on families, and of families on migration.’ -- Megha Amrith, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany

'The past few decades have witnessed important theoretical advances to previous understandings of how families weather and are central to engagement in global migration processes. At the same time, the world has changed in fundamental ways, including the introduction of new communication technologies and increasingly bifurcated possibilities for mobility between those with and without social and financial capital. Taking these changes as their starting point, the chapters in this handbook provide important insight for understanding contemporary transnational family life. Covering topics ranging from intimacy and home-making to professional and educational migratory flows to left-behind youth and temporalities and the life-cycle, this comprehensive volume highlights key intersections to pay attention to and continue exploring in order to better understand the complex social processes involved at the intersection of family life and global mobility regimes.' -- Nicole Newendorp, Harvard University, US 'Few things are more central to migration projects than the family, yet rarely in simple ways. This Handbook presents the transnational family in all of its complexity and multiplicity, tracing its diverse meanings over time, across space and generations. Inequalities and power dynamics are deeply woven into family relations, yet migration also generates novel familial arrangements and subjectivities. The rich contributions span a range of geographical contexts and adopt feminist, agency-centred and grounded approaches to crucially overturn long-standing normative assumptions about transnational families. The Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the personal and societal impacts of migration on families, and of families on migration.' -- Megha Amrith, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany

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Edited by Johanna L. Waters, Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography, University College London, UK and Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Raffles Professor Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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