Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility

1. Introduction: Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Introducing a Global and Family Life-Course Perspective
Majella Kilkey, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck

2. Mobilities and Communication Technologies: Transforming Care in Family Life
Loretta Baldassar

3. Everyday Practices of Living in Multiple Places and Mobilities: Transnational, Transregional, and Intra-Communal Multi-Local Families
Michaela Schier

4. Polymedia Communication Among Transnational Families: What Are the Long-Term Consequences for Migration?
Mirca Madianou

5. Traveling to the USA for Fertility Services: Push and Pull Factors
Lauren Jade Martin

6. Transnational Surrogacy and ‘Kinning’ Rituals in India
Amrita Pande

7. Marriage Migration Policy as a Social Reproduction System: The South Korean Experience
Gyuchan Kim, Majella Kilkey

8. Strangers in Paradise? Italian Mothers in Norway
Lise Widding Isaksen

9. Transnational Mothers and the Law: Ghanaian Women’s Pathways to Family Reunion and Consequences for Family Life
Miranda Poeze, Valentina Mazzucato

10. Fatherhood and Masculinities in Post-socialist Europe: The Challenges of Transnational Migration
Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Helma Lutz

11. Swedish Retirement Migrants in Spain: Mobility and Eldercare in an Aging Europe
Anna Gavanas, Ines Calzada

12. Contrasts in Ageing and Agency in Family Migratory Contexts: A Comparison of Albanian and Latvian Older Migrants
Russell King, Julie Vullnetari, Aija Lulle, Eralba Cela

13. Defamilialization of Whom? Re-Thinking Defamilialization in the Light of Global Care Chains and the Transnational Circulation of Care
Florence Degavre, Laura Merla

14. The Contested Meaning of Care in Migration Law
Sarah Walsum

15. Conclusions
Majella Kilkey, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck

Keywords: Social Sciences, Migration, Family, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Social Structure, Social Inequality