Binding: Paperback
Description: This book places family at the centre of discussions about migration and migrant life seeing migrants not as isolated individuals but as relational beings whose familial connections influence their migration decisions and trajectories. Particularly prioritising the voices of children and young people the book investigates everyday family practices to illuminate how migrants and their significant others do family parenting or being a child within a family both transnationally and locally. Themes covered include undocumented status unaccompanied children's asylum seeking adolescents "dark sides" second generation return migration home - making belonging nationality/citizenship peer relations and kinship and good mothering. The book deploys a wide range of methodological approaches and tools (multi - sited ethnographies participant observation interviews and creative methods) to capture the ordinary spatially extended and interpersonal dynamics of migrant family lives. Drawing on a range of cross - cutting disciplines geographical areas and diversity of levels and types of experiences on part of the editors and authors this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of migration childhood youth and family studies.
Title: Family Practices In Migration Everyday Lives And Relationships
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367677251
Pages: 264 Pages, 3 Tables, Black And White; 2 Line Drawings, Black And White; 4 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 5/25/2021
Series: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
Category: Health & Personal Development