The transnational family : new European frontiers and global networks
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The transnational family : new European frontiers and global networks
(Cross-cultural perspectives on women)
Berg, 2002
- : pbk
- : cloth
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Migrant networks, in the form of families, associational ties and social organizations, stretch across the globe, connecting cultures and bridging national boundaries. The effects of this global networking are vast. This book is the first to stand back and explore the impact. Families living outside of their original national boundaries have had, and continue to have, a profound influence over the flow of people, goods, money and information. More in-depth perspectives reveal how immigrants face troubling issues of cultural identity, economic change, political uncertainty and social welfare. From an examination of nineteenth-century transnational families emigrating from Europe, to the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora in Europe today, this book combines broadly based analysis with more unusual case studies to reveal the complexities that immigrants and refugees must contend with in their daily lives. What are the experiences of migrant Turkish women living in Germany? In what ways has religion been hybridized amongst West African Muslim migrants in Paris? What are the gender relations and transnational ties amongst Bosnian refugees? Never has such a topic been more relevant. Problems relating to immigrants' and refugees' situations in their adopted countries continue to grow. This book, wide-ranging in its geographical and thematic scope, is a highly important and timely addition to debates on transnational families, immigrants and refugees.
Table of Contents
Contributors, Acknowledgements, Part I: Introduction, 1. Transnational Families in the Twenty-first Century, 2. Europe's Transnational Families and Migration: Past and Present, Part II: Families Straddling National Boundaries and Cultures, 3. Transnational Families: Imagined and Real Communities, 4. Loss of Status or New Opportunities? Gender Relations and Transnational Ties among Bosnian Refugees, 5. Deceitful Origins and Tenacious Roots: Moroccan Immigration and New Trends in Dutch Literature, Part III: Life-Cycle Uncertainties, 6. Reconceptualizing Motherhood: Experiences of Migrant Women from Turkey Living in Germany, 7. Righteous or Rebellious? Social Trajectory of Sahelian Youth in France, 8. Breaking the Generational Contract? Japanese Migration and Old-age Care in Britain, Part IV: Transnational Family Consolidation through Religion, 9. Religion, Reciprocity and Restructuring Family Responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal Diaspora, 10. Religion, Migration and Wealth Creation in the Swaminarayan Movement, Part V: Economic and Political Networking, 11. Hybridization of Religious and Political Practices amongst West African Muslim Migrants in Paris, 12. North of South: European Immigrants' Stakeholdings in Southern Development, 13. Senegal's Village Diaspora and the People Left, Epilogue, Index
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