Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration

This book covers a broad range of issues related to family dimensions of international migration, including public discourses on migrant families, the role of state policies, family norms and practices, transnational families, the economic role of families, care and gender.

Albert Kraler is a researcher at the icmpd in Vienna and associate lecturer at the Department of Political Science and the International Development Studies Programme, both at the University of Vienna. Camille Schmoll is assistant professor of human geography at Paris Diderot University. Eleonore Kofman is professor of gender, migration and citizenship at Middlesex University, where she also serves as co-director of the Social Policy Research Centre. Martin Kohli is professor of sociology at the European University Institute in Florence and director of the Research Group on Aging and the Life Course at the Free University of Berlin.

Preface, 1 Introduction Issues and debates on family-related migration and the migrant family: A European perspective, Section I The family as a moral and social order, Section II Gender, generation and work in the migrant family, Section III Marriage migration and gender relations, Section IV Transnational family lives and practices, List of contributors, Index, Other IMISCOE titles