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Handbook on Migration and the Family
This Handbook is a timely and critical intervention into debates on changing family dynamics in the face of globalization, population migration and uneven mobilities. By capturing the diversity of family ‘types’, ‘arrangements’ and ‘strategies’ across a global setting, the volume highlights how migration is inextricably linked to complex familial relationships, often in supportive and nurturing ways, but also violent and oppressive at other times.
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This Handbook is a timely and critical intervention into debates on changing family dynamics in the face of globalization, population migration and uneven mobilities. By capturing the diversity of family ‘types’, ‘arrangements’ and ‘strategies’ across a global setting, the volume highlights how migration is inextricably linked to complex familial relationships, often in supportive and nurturing ways, but also violent and oppressive at other times.
Featuring state-of-the-art reviews from leading scholars, the Handbook attends to cross-cutting themes such as gender relations, intergenerational relationships, social inequalities and social mobility. The chapters cover a wide range of subjects, from forced migration and displacement, to expatriatism, labour migration, transnational marriage, education, LGBTQI families, digital technology and mobility regimes.
By highlighting the complexity of the migration-family nexus, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for researchers, scholars and students in the fields of human geography, sociology, anthropology and social policy. Policymakers and practitioners working on family relations and gender policy will also benefit from reading this Handbook.
Featuring state-of-the-art reviews from leading scholars, the Handbook attends to cross-cutting themes such as gender relations, intergenerational relationships, social inequalities and social mobility. The chapters cover a wide range of subjects, from forced migration and displacement, to expatriatism, labour migration, transnational marriage, education, LGBTQI families, digital technology and mobility regimes.
By highlighting the complexity of the migration-family nexus, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for researchers, scholars and students in the fields of human geography, sociology, anthropology and social policy. Policymakers and practitioners working on family relations and gender policy will also benefit from reading this Handbook.
Critical Acclaim
‘The past few decades have witnessed important theoretical advances to previous understandings of how families weather and are central to engagement in global migration processes. At the same time, the world has changed in fundamental ways, including the introduction of new communication technologies and increasingly bifurcated possibilities for mobility between those with and without social and financial capital. Taking these changes as their starting point, the chapters in this handbook provide important insight for understanding contemporary transnational family life. Covering topics ranging from intimacy and home-making to professional and educational migratory flows to left-behind youth and temporalities and the life-cycle, this comprehensive volume highlights key intersections to pay attention to and continue exploring in order to better understand the complex social processes involved at the intersection of family life and global mobility regimes.’
– Nicole Newendorp, Harvard University, US
‘Few things are more central to migration projects than the family, yet rarely in simple ways. This Handbook presents the transnational family in all of its complexity and multiplicity, tracing its diverse meanings over time, across space and generations. Inequalities and power dynamics are deeply woven into family relations, yet migration also generates novel familial arrangements and subjectivities. The rich contributions span a range of geographical contexts and adopt feminist, agency-centred and grounded approaches to crucially overturn long-standing normative assumptions about transnational families. The Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the personal and societal impacts of migration on families, and of families on migration.’
– Megha Amrith, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany
– Nicole Newendorp, Harvard University, US
‘Few things are more central to migration projects than the family, yet rarely in simple ways. This Handbook presents the transnational family in all of its complexity and multiplicity, tracing its diverse meanings over time, across space and generations. Inequalities and power dynamics are deeply woven into family relations, yet migration also generates novel familial arrangements and subjectivities. The rich contributions span a range of geographical contexts and adopt feminist, agency-centred and grounded approaches to crucially overturn long-standing normative assumptions about transnational families. The Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the personal and societal impacts of migration on families, and of families on migration.’
– Megha Amrith, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany
Contributors
Contributors: Terese Anving, Earvin Charles Cabalquinto, Sue Clayton, Rosie Cox, Sophie Cranston, Sara Eldén, C. Cindy Fan, Claire Fletcher, Anna Gupta, Yanbo Hao, Lan Anh Hoang, Yang Hu, Roy Huijsmans, Jennifer Hyndman, Thomas Sætre Jakobsen, Neil Amber Judge, Rhondeni Kikon, Weronika Kloc-Nowak, Sin Yee Koh, Theodora Lam, Maggi W.H. Leung, Cathy McIlwaine, Franchesca Morais, Caitríona Ní Laoire, Louise Ryan, Johan Fredrik Rye, Sam Scott, I Lin Sin, Denise L. Spitzer, George Tan, Sara Torres, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Zhe Wang, Johanna L. Waters, Annabelle Wilkins, Katie Willis, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Biftu Yousuf
Contents
Contents:
1 Introduction to the Handbook on Migration and the Family 1
Johanna L. Waters and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
PART I GENDER RELATIONS AND GENDER SUBJECTIVITIES
2 Nanny families and the making of gender (in)equality 20
Rosie Cox, Terese Anving and Sara Eldén
3 Transnational marriage migration: agency, structures and
intimate gendered governmentality 42
Neil Amber Judge and Margaret Walton-Roberts
4 Nation, gender and location: understanding transnational
families in the face of violence 65
Biftu Yousuf and Jennifer Hyndman
5 Vietnamese masculinities in transition: negotiating
manhood in the context of female labour migration 86
Lan Anh Hoang
6 The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and
changes in an age of global mobility and digital media 107
Earvin Charles Cabalquinto and Yang Hu
PART II AGE AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
7 Mobility and intergenerational transfers of capital:
narrating expatriate and globally mobile children’s perspectives 130
Sin Yee Koh and I Lin Sin
8 Young people, intergenerationality and the familial
reproduction of transnational migrations and im/mobilities 151
Caitríona Ní Laoire
9 Split households and migration in the Global South:
gender and intergenerational perspectives 173
C. Cindy Fan
10 Negotiating long-distance caring relations: migrants in the
UK and their families in Poland 197
Weronika Kloc-Nowak and Louise Ryan
11 Analysing youth migrations through the lens of generation 218
Rhondeni Kikon and Roy Huijsmans
12 Unaccompanied child migrants and family relationships 236
Katie Willis, Sue Clayton and Anna Gupta
PART III POWER, SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND
SOCIAL MOBILITY
13 Families in educational migration: strategies, investments
and emotions 257
Johanna L. Waters and Zhe Wang
14 Privileged migration and the family: family matters in
corporate expatriation 279
Sophie Cranston and George Tan
15 Not as safe as houses: experiences of domestic violence
among international migrant women 298
Cathy McIlwaine
16 Academic mobility and the family 320
Yanbo Hao and Maggi W.H. Leung
17 The heterosexual family ideal and its limitations for
bi-national same-sex family formations 340
Claire Fletcher
PART IV SPATIALITIES AND TEMPORALITIES
18 Migrant family separation, reunification and recalibration 366
Denise L. Spitzer and Sara Torres
19 ‘Maybe in the future I’ll have two homes’: temporalities
of migration and family life among Vietnamese people in London 385
Annabelle Wilkins20 Offshoring social reproduction: low-wage labour
circulation and the separation of work and family life 403
Thomas Saetre Jakobsen, Sam Scott and Johan Fredrik Rye
21 Growing over time: left-behind children in the past three decades 425
Theodora Lam
22 Transnational families and mobility regimes 445
Franchesca Morais and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Index 466
1 Introduction to the Handbook on Migration and the Family 1
Johanna L. Waters and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
PART I GENDER RELATIONS AND GENDER SUBJECTIVITIES
2 Nanny families and the making of gender (in)equality 20
Rosie Cox, Terese Anving and Sara Eldén
3 Transnational marriage migration: agency, structures and
intimate gendered governmentality 42
Neil Amber Judge and Margaret Walton-Roberts
4 Nation, gender and location: understanding transnational
families in the face of violence 65
Biftu Yousuf and Jennifer Hyndman
5 Vietnamese masculinities in transition: negotiating
manhood in the context of female labour migration 86
Lan Anh Hoang
6 The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and
changes in an age of global mobility and digital media 107
Earvin Charles Cabalquinto and Yang Hu
PART II AGE AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
7 Mobility and intergenerational transfers of capital:
narrating expatriate and globally mobile children’s perspectives 130
Sin Yee Koh and I Lin Sin
8 Young people, intergenerationality and the familial
reproduction of transnational migrations and im/mobilities 151
Caitríona Ní Laoire
9 Split households and migration in the Global South:
gender and intergenerational perspectives 173
C. Cindy Fan
10 Negotiating long-distance caring relations: migrants in the
UK and their families in Poland 197
Weronika Kloc-Nowak and Louise Ryan
11 Analysing youth migrations through the lens of generation 218
Rhondeni Kikon and Roy Huijsmans
12 Unaccompanied child migrants and family relationships 236
Katie Willis, Sue Clayton and Anna Gupta
PART III POWER, SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND
SOCIAL MOBILITY
13 Families in educational migration: strategies, investments
and emotions 257
Johanna L. Waters and Zhe Wang
14 Privileged migration and the family: family matters in
corporate expatriation 279
Sophie Cranston and George Tan
15 Not as safe as houses: experiences of domestic violence
among international migrant women 298
Cathy McIlwaine
16 Academic mobility and the family 320
Yanbo Hao and Maggi W.H. Leung
17 The heterosexual family ideal and its limitations for
bi-national same-sex family formations 340
Claire Fletcher
PART IV SPATIALITIES AND TEMPORALITIES
18 Migrant family separation, reunification and recalibration 366
Denise L. Spitzer and Sara Torres
19 ‘Maybe in the future I’ll have two homes’: temporalities
of migration and family life among Vietnamese people in London 385
Annabelle Wilkins20 Offshoring social reproduction: low-wage labour
circulation and the separation of work and family life 403
Thomas Saetre Jakobsen, Sam Scott and Johan Fredrik Rye
21 Growing over time: left-behind children in the past three decades 425
Theodora Lam
22 Transnational families and mobility regimes 445
Franchesca Morais and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Index 466
