Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Global Perspectives Through the Life Course

In an age of migration and mobility many aspects of contemporary family life - from biological reproduction to marriage, from child-rearing to care of the elderly - take place against a backdrop of intensified movement across a range of spatial scales from the global to the local. This insightful book analyzes the opportunities and challenges this poses for families and for academic, empirical and policy understandings of 'the family' on a global level, including case studies from Europe, India, the Philippines, South Korea, the United States and Australia. With chapters on international reproductive tourism, transnational parenting, 'mail-order brides' and 'sunset migration', it examines the implications of migration and mobility for families at different stages of the life course. Moreover, it brings together leading international scholars to connect a fragmented field of research, and in so doing enables an interdisciplinary exchange, generating new insights for theory, policy and empirical analysis.

Author: Majella Kilkey
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/28/2016
Pages: 358
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 8.69h x 6.10w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781137520975

About the Author

Majella Kilkey is Reader in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her current research centers on migration and families.

Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Gender Studies Department at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Her research interests include migration, transnationalism, gender studies and care work.