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Making Multicultural Families in Europe

Gender and Intergenerational Relations

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Generates a renewed and more comprehensive understanding of the interconnections between migration and family life in the EU, both within and across borders
  • Combines qualitative and quantitative data
  • Covers a wide range of migratory flows to the EU

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiv
  2. Transnational and Mixed Families: Key Issues and Emerging Trends

    • Stefania Giada Meda, Isabella Crespi
    Pages 1-20
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 255-263

About this book

This edited collection explores family relations in two types of  'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families. Based on in-depth qualitative fieldwork and large surveys, the contributors analyse gender and intergenerational relations from a variety of standpoints and migratory flows. In their examination of family life in a migratory context, the authors develop theoretical approaches from the social sciences that go beyond migration studies, such as intersectionality, the solidarity paradigm, care circulation, reflexive modernization and gender convergence theory.

Making Multicultural Families in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including migration and transnationalism studies, family studies, intergenerational studies, gender studies, cultural studies, development studies, globalization studies, ethnic studies, gerontology studies, social network analysis and social work.

Reviews

“Drawing on rich and diverse empirical examples, the volume illuminates how gender and generational dynamics are forged across national borders, and documents the everyday practices and processes of ‘doing family’ in multi-ethnic and transnational contexts.” (Loretta Baldassar, University of Western Australia)

“A fascinating and multivocal study of gender and intergenerational dynamics in ‘migrant families’” (Paolo Boccagni, University of Trento, Italy)

“An important contribution to family literature.” (Valentina Mazzucato, Maastricht University, Netherlands)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Education Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy

    Isabella Crespi

  • The Catholic University Centre for Family Studies and Research, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Stefania Giada Meda

  • Centre interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur les Familles et les Sexualités, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Laura Merla

About the editors

Isabella Crespi is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Macerata, Italy, and coordinator of the RN13 of the European Sociological Association.

Stefania Giada Meda is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Catholic University of Milano, Italy.

Laura Merla is Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Making Multicultural Families in Europe

  • Book Subtitle: Gender and Intergenerational Relations

  • Editors: Isabella Crespi, Stefania Giada Meda, Laura Merla

  • Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59755-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59754-6Published: 22 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09647-2Published: 29 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59755-3Published: 13 March 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2731-6440

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXIV, 263

  • Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Sociology of Culture, Gender Studies

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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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