Transnational Families: Ethnicities, Identities and Social Capital

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ISBN: 9780415468909 | 0415468906
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/2/2010

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Contemporary Western society is changing and, controversially, migration is often flagged as one of the reasons. The nature of population change challenges conventional understandings of family forms and networks whilst multiculturalism poses challenges to our understanding of social change, families and social capital.

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Acknowledgements	p. vi
Preface	p. vii
Some general questions	p. 1
Theorizing transnational families	p. 3
Social capital joins the trinity: families, ethnicities, communities	p. 16
Methodological issues and challenges	p. 36
The politics of migration	p. 49
Living and coping across boundaries	p. 63
Migrants, offspring and settlement	p. 65
Families, needs and caring practices	p. 81
Continuity and invention of identities within families and communities	p. 99
Problems of belonging and 'return'	p. 120
Alienation and escape from the family and community	p. 136
Crossing boundaries: problems and opportunities in 'mixed' families	p. 155
Conclusion: transnational families, policy and research challenges	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 182
Index	p. 198
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