Divorce In Transnational Families

Author : Iris Sportel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319340098

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Divorce in Transnational Families by Iris Sportel Pdf

This book uniquely focuses on the role of family law in transnational marriages. The author demonstrates how family law is of critical importance in understanding transnational family life. Based on extensive field research in Morocco, Egypt and the Netherlands, the book examines how, during marriage and divorce, transnational families deal with the interactions of two different legal systems. Sportel studies the interactions of European and Islamic family law, addressing its interconnections with migration and everyday life, within the context of highly politicised debates on gender, Islam, migration and the family. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of family sociology, migration and diaspora studies, transnational families, family law, and sociology of law.

Author : Sharon Ee Ling Quah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429753039

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Transnational Divorce by Sharon Ee Ling Quah Pdf

This book explores the transnational aspects of divorce experiences. Transnational Divorce uncovers the stories of four main groups of transnational divorcees at the field site of Singapore, including low-income marriage migrant women from less wealthy countries, low-income citizen men, middle-class living apart together divorced parents and overseas-based citizen divorced mothers. Employing transnational, intersectional feminist perspectives, the book extends the author’s earlier conceptualisation of divorce biography to propose a new framework of transnational divorce biography. The transnational divorce biography framework provides readers a useful analytical tool to make sense of transnational divorced individuals’ messy experiences in working out their transborder intimacy practices. Meandering through their accounts, the author weaves together a strong narrative of inequalities and privileges at the site of intimate life. The book ends with an epilogue on fire dragon feminism where the author discusses place-based feminist mission of activism and resistance. Transnational Divorce will appeal to researchers and policy makers interested in transnational relationships, family studies and sociology in general.

Author : Marja Tiilikainen,Mulki Al-Sharmani,Sanna Mustasaari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351866668

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Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families by Marja Tiilikainen,Mulki Al-Sharmani,Sanna Mustasaari Pdf

This book examines the needs, aspirations, strategies, and challenges of transnational Muslim migrants in Europe with regard to family practices such as marriage, divorce, and parenting. Critically re-conceptualizing ‘wellbeing’ and unpacking its multiple dimensions in the context of Muslim families, it investigates how migrants make sense of and draw on different norms, laws, and regimes of knowledge as they navigate different aspects of family relations and life in a transnational social space. With attention to issues such as registration of marriage, civil versus religious marriage, spousal roles and rights, polygamy, parenting, child wellbeing, and everyday security, the authors offer national and comparative case studies of Muslim families from different parts of the world, covering different family bonds and relations, within both extended and nuclear families. Based on empirical research in the Nordic region and further afield, this volume affords a more complete understanding of the practices of transnational migrant families, as well as the processes through which family relations and rights are negotiated between family members and with state institutions and laws, whilst contributing to the growing literature on migrant wellbeing. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and social policy with interests in migration and transnational communities, wellbeing, and the family.

Author : Katharine Charsley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136279751

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Transnational Marriage by Katharine Charsley Pdf

Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been a neglected field in migration studies. In contemporary Europe, transnational marriages have become an increasingly focal issue for immigration regimes, for whom these border-crossing family formations represent a significant challenge. This timely volume brings together work from Europe and beyond, addressing the issue of transnational marriage from a range of perspectives (including legal frameworks, processes of integration, and gendered dynamics), presenting substantial new empirical material, and taking a fresh look at key concepts in this area.

Author : Barbara Stark,Jacqueline Heaton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317043119

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Routledge Handbook of International Family Law by Barbara Stark,Jacqueline Heaton Pdf

Globalisation, and the vast migrations of capital and labour that have accompanied it in recent decades, has transformed family law in once unimaginable ways. Families have been torn apart and new families have been created. Borders have become more porous, allowing adoptees and mail order brides to join new families and women fleeing domestic violence to escape from old ones. People of different nationalities marry, have children, and divorce, not necessarily in that order. They file suits in their respective home states or third states, demanding support, custody, and property. Otherwise law-abiding parents risk jail in desperate efforts to abduct their own children from foreign ex-spouses. The aim of this Handbook is to provide scholars, postgraduate students, judges, and practioners with a broad but authoritative review of current research in the area of International Family Law. The contributors reflect on a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions and their approaches vary. Each chapter has a distinct subject matter and was written by an author who was invited because of his or her expertise on that subject. This volume provides a valuable contribution to emerging understandings of the subject.

Author : Loretta Baldassar,Laura Merla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135132255

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Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care by Loretta Baldassar,Laura Merla Pdf

Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative conceptualisations of this type of family. It re-conceptualises transnational care as a set of activities that circulates between home and host countries - across generations - and fluctuates over the life course, going beyond a focus on mother-child relationships to include multidirectional exchanges across generations and between genders. It highlights, in particular, how the sense of belonging in transnational families is sustained by the reciprocal, though uneven, exchange of caregiving, which binds members together in intergenerational networks of reciprocity and obligation, love and trust that are simultaneously fraught with tension, contest and relations of unequal power. The chapters that make up this volume cover a rich array of ethnographic case studies including analyses of transnational families who circulate care between developing nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia to wealthier nations in North America, Europe and Australia. There are also examples of intra- and extra- European, Australian and North American migration, which involve the mobility of both the unskilled and working class as well as the skilled middle and aspirational classes.

Author : Mirca Madianou,Daniel Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136577574

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Migration and New Media by Mirca Madianou,Daniel Miller Pdf

How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and texting. A migrant mother can now call and text her left-behind children several times a day, peruse social networking sites and leave the webcam for 12 hours achieving a sense of co-presence. Drawing on a long-term ethnographic study of prolonged separation between migrant mothers and their children who remain in the Philippines, this book develops groundbreaking theory for understanding both new media and the nature of mediated relationships. It brings together the perspectives of both the mothers and children and shows how the very nature of family relationships is changing. New media, understood as an emerging environment of polymedia, have become integral to the way family relationships are enacted and experienced. The theory of polymedia extends beyond the poignant case study and is developed as a major contribution for understanding the interconnections between digital media and interpersonal relationships.

Author : Viorela Ducu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319902425

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Romanian Transnational Families by Viorela Ducu Pdf

This book explores novel aspects of transnational family research through the study of Romanian transnational families. A range of topics are covered, including the impact of lodging type upon life strategies; understudied elements in transnational relationships; gender roles in transnational communication; multinational relationships; the role of polymedia in the formation of couples; and the lives of the children of Romanian transnational families. The author presents the experiences of ‘leavers’ as well as of ‘stayers’; of the ‘highly-skilled’ as well as the ‘low-skilled’; that of women and that of men - through individual testimonies and couple interviews. Romanian Transnational Families will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, anthropology and geography. Chapter 3 and Chapter 5 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Author : Judith Treas,Jacqueline Scott,Martin Richards
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119406037

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families by Judith Treas,Jacqueline Scott,Martin Richards Pdf

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change. Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children’s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in welfare state protection for families Includes many European, North American and Asian examples written by a team of experts from across five continents Features coverage of previously neglected groups, including immigrant and transnational families as well as families of gays and lesbians Demonstrates how studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life across the globe Extensively reworked from the original Companion published over a decade ago: three-quarters of the material is completely new, and the remainder has been comprehensively updated

Author : Bob Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000320770

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Changing Families by Bob Simpson Pdf

Recent decades have seen spectacular increases in the levels of divorce and separation across the Western world. This important development is having a radical impact on the conduct and nature of family relationships. This book offers an original investigation of these critical transformations through an ethnographic analysis of post-divorce family life in Britain and provides insightful answers to vexing questions, such as:- What cultural values and ideologies motivate and shape concerns over relationships when marriage ends?- Which relationships continue and why?- What cultural values underpin the financial transactions that take place or (more commonly) fail to take place after divorce?Drawing on extensive interviews with those most affected by divorce, the author argues that the positive sentiments traditionally associated with the notion of kinship are wholly inadequate when it comes to understanding divorce, but that kinship can provide an illuminating window through which to consider the breakdown of marital relations.This book represents a significant contribution to current debates over the changing form and expression of relationships in Western society in the late twentieth century.

Author : Zheng Mu,Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000508291

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Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts by Zheng Mu,Wei-Jun Jean Yeung Pdf

This book analyses how Asian migrants adapt and assimilate into their host societies, and how this assimilation differs across their sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts. The diversities in Asian migrants’ assimilation trajectories challenge the assumption that given time, migrants will eventually integrate holistically into their host societies. This book captures the diverse patterns and trajectories of assimilation by going beyond marriage migration to look at how family formation processes are shaped by migration driven by reasons other than marriage. Using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method analyses, not only does this book uncover the nuances of the link between marriage and migration, but it also widens methodological repertoires in research on marriage and migration. It also captures various social outcomes that may have been influenced by migration, including migrants’ economic well-being, cultural assimilation, subjective well-being, and gender inequality vis-à-vis marriages. This book further embeds the studies in the Asian contexts by drawing on individual countries’ unique policies relevant to cross-cultural marriages, the persistent impacts of extended families, the patriarchal traditions, and systems of religion and caste. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Author : Dinah Hannaford
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812249347

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Marriage Without Borders by Dinah Hannaford Pdf

This multi-sited ethnography provides a rich account of the costs of global neoliberal economic policy for families in the global south. With a focus on Senegalese migrants in Europe and their wives who are left behind, Hannaford illustrates how new understandings of intimacy, gender, and class are forged in a culture of migration.

Author : Iris Daniëlle Adelgunde Sportel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:870541036

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'Maybe I'm Still His Wife' by Iris Daniëlle Adelgunde Sportel Pdf

Author : Ann Laquer Estin
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Conflict of laws
ISBN : 1614383170

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International Family Law Desk Book by Ann Laquer Estin Pdf

Transnational family litigation -- Marriage, partnership, and cohabitation -- Divorce and separation -- Financial aspects of marriage and divorce -- Parental responsibility -- International child abduction -- Child support -- Adoption.

Author : Wei-Jun Jean Yeung,Shu Hu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351109857

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Family and Population Changes in Singapore by Wei-Jun Jean Yeung,Shu Hu Pdf

This book depicts the evolution of Singapore’s family and population landscape in the last half a century, the related public policies, and future challenges. Since the country gained independence in 1965, family and population policies have been integral to her nation-building strategies. The chapters discuss the changes in population compositions, family structures, relations, and values among major ethnic groups. They also discuss policies for vulnerable populations such as female-headed households, cross-cultural families, same-sex partnering, the elderly, and low-income families.