Contemporary migrant families : actors and issues

2018
book
monography
dc.abstract.enDespite extensive and continuous academic interest in migrant and transnational families, a stereotypical view that those leading mobile lives are somehow beyond the contours of normativity is still prevalent. Such a perspective concerns both kinship and family practices of "familyhood" across borders, and the bi- or multicultural settings of providing or offering care. Consequently, we primarily hear about migration leading to broken relationships, the dissolution of families and bonds, substandard provisions of care, abandonment, exploitation of employees and so on. In this climate of public imagination of migrants either being "dangerous" or concurrently stealing one’s job and scrounging off the welfare state, it is no small feat to be a migration scholar. Trying to overcome the universalising views that essentialise human experience requires a wholly different point of departure, one which is represented in this volume. This is because a now well-established transnational paradigm allows for a more nuanced analysis, originating with the premise that not only normalises mobility, but also proves that various ties and relationships can be continued in the long-term despite spatial distance. On the whole, the transnational lens provided here showcases how new family practices are devised and deployed in mobile family lives, thus allowing the argument that migration enriches certain dimensions of contemporary family life and caregiving. This book plays on the dichotomy of migration as “the new normal” and mobility as a continuous source of challenges. The core issues examined here concern such problems as maintaining kinship ties across borders, new patterns of mothering and fathering, children’s sense of belonging and identifications, and social capital and engagement in community life. It reveals that "doing family" in the migration context often eludes simple definitions of national space or typical family. Instead, it offers a transnational understanding of how a person practically and pragmatically arranges one’s family and kinship, strategically choosing pathways of care, child-rearing, relationships at home, maintaining traditions and so forth.pl
dc.affiliationWydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Socjologiipl
dc.contributor.editorŚlusarczyk, Magdalena - 132326 pl
dc.contributor.editorPustułka, Paulina - 109444 pl
dc.contributor.editorStruzik, Justyna - 109526 pl
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-23T08:54:09Z
dc.date.available2021-09-23T08:54:09Z
dc.date.issued2018pl
dc.description.physical231pl
dc.description.points4pl
dc.description.publication15pl
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-5275-1346-4pl
dc.identifier.isbn1-5275-1346-7pl
dc.identifier.projectROD UJ / Opl
dc.identifier.projectPol-Nor/197905/4/2013pl
dc.identifier.urihttps://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/279024
dc.languageengpl
dc.pubinfoNewcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishingpl
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dc.subject.enmigrationpl
dc.subject.enfamilypl
dc.subject.encarepl
dc.subject.entransnationalitypl
dc.subtypeMonographypl
dc.titleContemporary migrant families : actors and issuespl
dc.typeBookpl
dspace.entity.typePublication
dc.abstract.enpl
Despite extensive and continuous academic interest in migrant and transnational families, a stereotypical view that those leading mobile lives are somehow beyond the contours of normativity is still prevalent. Such a perspective concerns both kinship and family practices of "familyhood" across borders, and the bi- or multicultural settings of providing or offering care. Consequently, we primarily hear about migration leading to broken relationships, the dissolution of families and bonds, substandard provisions of care, abandonment, exploitation of employees and so on. In this climate of public imagination of migrants either being "dangerous" or concurrently stealing one’s job and scrounging off the welfare state, it is no small feat to be a migration scholar. Trying to overcome the universalising views that essentialise human experience requires a wholly different point of departure, one which is represented in this volume. This is because a now well-established transnational paradigm allows for a more nuanced analysis, originating with the premise that not only normalises mobility, but also proves that various ties and relationships can be continued in the long-term despite spatial distance. On the whole, the transnational lens provided here showcases how new family practices are devised and deployed in mobile family lives, thus allowing the argument that migration enriches certain dimensions of contemporary family life and caregiving. This book plays on the dichotomy of migration as “the new normal” and mobility as a continuous source of challenges. The core issues examined here concern such problems as maintaining kinship ties across borders, new patterns of mothering and fathering, children’s sense of belonging and identifications, and social capital and engagement in community life. It reveals that "doing family" in the migration context often eludes simple definitions of national space or typical family. Instead, it offers a transnational understanding of how a person practically and pragmatically arranges one’s family and kinship, strategically choosing pathways of care, child-rearing, relationships at home, maintaining traditions and so forth.
dc.affiliationpl
Wydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Socjologii
dc.contributor.editorpl
Ślusarczyk, Magdalena - 132326
dc.contributor.editorpl
Pustułka, Paulina - 109444
dc.contributor.editorpl
Struzik, Justyna - 109526
dc.date.accessioned
2021-09-23T08:54:09Z
dc.date.available
2021-09-23T08:54:09Z
dc.date.issuedpl
2018
dc.description.physicalpl
231
dc.description.pointspl
4
dc.description.publicationpl
15
dc.identifier.isbnpl
978-1-5275-1346-4
dc.identifier.isbnpl
1-5275-1346-7
dc.identifier.projectpl
ROD UJ / O
dc.identifier.projectpl
Pol-Nor/197905/4/2013
dc.identifier.uri
https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/279024
dc.languagepl
eng
dc.pubinfopl
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
dc.rights*
Dodaję tylko opis bibliograficzny
dc.rights.licence
bez licencji
dc.rights.uri*
dc.subject.enpl
migration
dc.subject.enpl
family
dc.subject.enpl
care
dc.subject.enpl
transnationality
dc.subtypepl
Monography
dc.titlepl
Contemporary migrant families : actors and issues
dc.typepl
Book
dspace.entity.type
Publication
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