The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Deborah Bryceson
Edited by Ulla Vuorela
SeriesCross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
ISBN/Barcode 9781859736760
ClassificationsDewey:362.84
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Berg Publishers
Publication Date 1 November 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

Author Biography

Deborah Bryceson Senior Research Fellow,African Studies Centre, Leiden Ulla Vuorela Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of Tampere

Reviews

'This book... contains a multidimensionality that one can only provide a flavour of in a short review. It is an engaging addition to the literature of migration.' Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law