In a worldwide context of growing migration processes, international research confirms the central role that the family plays in the migration plans and strategies of individuals, including the decision to emigrate and which family members must or can do so. The family also takes on considerable importance in defining subsequent modifications, such as the length and development of migratory projects. Emigration in turn can alter marriage and couple models, ways of living together and forms of cohabitation. The “migrant family” is set in a social system where roles and relationships could be partially or completely different. The settlement of individuals in the receiving Country, and their changing migration plans and strategies follow multiple pathways: family reunions, mixed marriages, correspondence brides, small-sized families, childless couples. The experience of migration, with its cultural and emotional break-ups can redefine and reorganise networks and relational dynamics, particularly between men and women, parents, grandparents and children. Through our specific focus on transnational and multi-ethnic families, we wish to contribute to understanding both the current state of the foreign presence in Europe, and the future consequences of the developments under way. In this project we wish to address the following questions: 1. What are the gender and intergenerational dynamics organizing social relations within multi-ethnic/transnational families and how do they influence migration experiences? 2. How are family relations reorganized across national borders and what are the impacts of social remittances (ideas, behaviours, identities, and social capital) in reshaping social relations in in multi-ethnic/transnational family networks? 3. What are the connections between negotiation processes and conflicts emerging from cultural differences in multi-ethnic/transnational families?
Multi-ethnic and transnational families in Europe. Gender and generations
CRESPI, ISABELLA;
2015-01-01
Abstract
In a worldwide context of growing migration processes, international research confirms the central role that the family plays in the migration plans and strategies of individuals, including the decision to emigrate and which family members must or can do so. The family also takes on considerable importance in defining subsequent modifications, such as the length and development of migratory projects. Emigration in turn can alter marriage and couple models, ways of living together and forms of cohabitation. The “migrant family” is set in a social system where roles and relationships could be partially or completely different. The settlement of individuals in the receiving Country, and their changing migration plans and strategies follow multiple pathways: family reunions, mixed marriages, correspondence brides, small-sized families, childless couples. The experience of migration, with its cultural and emotional break-ups can redefine and reorganise networks and relational dynamics, particularly between men and women, parents, grandparents and children. Through our specific focus on transnational and multi-ethnic families, we wish to contribute to understanding both the current state of the foreign presence in Europe, and the future consequences of the developments under way. In this project we wish to address the following questions: 1. What are the gender and intergenerational dynamics organizing social relations within multi-ethnic/transnational families and how do they influence migration experiences? 2. How are family relations reorganized across national borders and what are the impacts of social remittances (ideas, behaviours, identities, and social capital) in reshaping social relations in in multi-ethnic/transnational family networks? 3. What are the connections between negotiation processes and conflicts emerging from cultural differences in multi-ethnic/transnational families?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
