The New Diversity of Family Life in Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. Introduction

   • Banu Çitlak, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Megan Lueneburg, Meglena Zlatkova

   Pages 1-5

3. Studying transnationalism

   • Sascha Riedel

   Pages 7-27

4. Spatial Transnationalism: An analytical approach

   • Sebastian Kurtenbach

   Pages 29-43

5. Spatial segregation and the unequal educational pathways of children in urban areas

   • Banu Çıtlak

   Pages 45-59

6. Development of participation in early childhood education and care in Europe in relation to social inequality and migration

   • Nora Jehles

   Pages 61-80

7. Moving in together and marrying for the first time

   • Barbara Elisabeth Fulda

   Pages 81-98

8. Migration, family life and cultural inheritance

   • Meglena Zlatkova, Stoyka Penkova

   Pages 99-121

9. Socialist family as a biopolitical dispositive

   • Rositsa Lyubenova

   Pages 123-134

10. More than to Raise a Child from a Distance

    • Svetlana Antova

    Pages 135-148

11. Women and Families: Mobility Strategies

    • Aneliya Avdzhieva

    Pages 149-162

12. Children and Socialization: Crossing Social and Cultural Boundaries

    • Svetoslava Mancheva

    Pages 163-179

13. Parents’ neighborhood integration in two ethnically diverse low-income neighborhoods

    • Banu Çıtlak

    Pages 181-194

14. Comparing seemingly different living environments

    • Maren Hilke

    Pages 195-210

15. Growing up in a disadvantaged neighborhood

    • Ina Schäfer

    Pages 211-232

16. Back Matter

    Pages 233-235

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The authors focus on families who organize their lives in transnational social spaces within and at the outer borders of Europe, to offer a new perspective on transnational family life and to advance the knowledge on borders drawn by social inequality, discrimination and political exclusion. They also discuss social mobility as inheriting different life worlds, while crossing borders. The research on the socialization of children, raised in different societies provides a better understanding of the new generations in Europe from the beginning of the XXI c. The variety of methods presented in this book is also a contribution to link Western and Eastern European perspectives as well as sociology and anthropology in order to capture a wider spectrum of social reality.

• Migration
• Roma
• Family
• Transnational social spaces
• Childhood

• University of Applied Science ans Arts Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  Banu Çitlak

• Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University Institute of Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG), Bielefeld, Germany

  Sebastian Kurtenbach

• Institute of Ethnology, University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

  Megan Lueneburg

• Institute of Ethnology, University of Plovdiv Paisii Hildenarski , Plovdiv, Bulgaria

  Meglena Zlatkova

Dr. Banu Çıtlak, Assoc. Prof., University of Applied Science and Arts Dortmund, Germany.
Dr. Sebastian Kurtenbach, research assistant, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG), Bielefeld University, Germany.
Megan Lueneburg, fulbright researcher, architect, curator, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Dr. Meglena Zlatkova, Assoc. Prof., Department of Ethnology, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

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