Making Multicultural Families in Europe Gender and Intergenerational Relations [Hardcover]

This edited collection explores family relations in two types of  'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families. Based on in-depth qualitative fieldwork and large surveys, the contributors analyse gender and intergenerational relations from a variety of standpoints and migratory flows. In their examination of family life in a migratory context, the authors develop theoretical approaches from the social sciences that go beyond migration studies, such as intersectionality, the solidarity paradigm, care circulation, reflexive modernization and gender convergence theory.

Making Multicultural Families in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including migration and transnationalism studies, family studies, intergenerational studies, gender studies, cultural studies, development studies, globalization studies, ethnic studies, gerontology studies, social network analysis and social work.

1. Editors introduction: Aims, scope and structure of the book; Laura Merla, Stefania Giada Meda, Isabella Crespi.- 2. Introducing transnational and mixed families; Stefania Giada Meda & Isabella Crespi.- Part I: Multi-ethnic families: Negotiating Difference across Gender and Generations.- 3. Global householding in mixed families: the case of Thai migrant women in Belgium; Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot & Laura Merla.- 4. 'Doing gender' across cultures:  Gender negotiations in bi-national couple relationships; Benedicte Brahic.- 5. Reversal of the Gender Order? Male Marriage Migration to Germany by Turkish Men: new forms of gendered transnationalization of migrant offsprings in Europe; Ursula Apitzsch.- 6. Comparing sibling ties in inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic families in Germany; EbrlÂ