Overview
- Applies the life course perspective in a comprehensive way that focuses on its interplay with migration, considering both the perspective of immigrants and the one of returnees
- Uses biographic interviews that provide original and rich data and are specifically designed to give priority to the life course of migrants and returnees from an interdisciplinary, socio-anthropological perspective.
- Addresses fields which were seldom or never addressed from a life-course approach, such as teenagers, or the effects of life satisfaction.
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About this book
This volume documents the life uncertainties revealed by migrants’ biographies. For international migrants, life journeys are less conventional or patterned, while their family, work, and educational trajectories are simultaneously more fragmented and intermingled. The authors discuss the challenges faced by migrants and returnees when trying to make sense of their life courses after years of experience in other countries with different age norms and cultural values. The book also examines the ways to reconcile competing cultural expectations of both origin and destination societies regarding the timing of transitions between roles to provide a meaningful account of their life courses. Migration is, itself, a major life event, with profound implications for the pursuit of migrants’ life goals, organization of family life, and personal networks, and it can affect, to a considerable degree, their subjective well-being.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Life Strategies and Life-Choices Depending on Social Context
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Gender and Family
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Reviews
“Migration has become a major political issue. It stirs up basic dimensions of human existence: identity, social position, gender, agency, privilege and discrimination, well-being, but also social context: institutional reactions, racist reactions, accessibility and closure. With its life-course approach to individual and contextual aspects of migration and also remigration, this volume provides a timely effort at putting this complexity into an integrative perspective.” (René Levy, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
“This book contributes to fill the gap of knowledge on the effects from migration on migrants’ lives themselves. A very new insight is the fact that a life course perspective on migrants’ trajectories during the economic crisis in Europe can explain why for non-EU migrants naturalization in the country of arrival became a solution to save their migration careers and that experiences of career fragmentation might create space for the renegotiation of gender identities.” (Ursula Apitzsch, Professor, Goethe University, Germany)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ionela Vlase is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania.
Bogdan Voicu is Professor of Sociology at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania, and First Degree Research Fellow with Romanian Academy, Research Institute for Quality of Life.
Bogdan Voicu is Professor of Sociology at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania, and First Degree Research Fellow with Romanian Academy, Research Institute for Quality of Life.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender, Family, and Adaptation of Migrants in Europe
Book Subtitle: A Life Course Perspective
Editors: Ionela Vlase, Bogdan Voicu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76657-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76656-0Published: 14 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09547-5Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76657-7Published: 31 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 241
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development and Social Change, Migration, Development and Gender, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Politics and Gender, Cultural Policy and Politics