Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility : Global Perspectives Through the Life Course.

Intro -- Foreword -- In Commemoration of Sarah Van Walsum, 1955-2014 -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Introducing a Global and Family Life-Course Perspective -- Chapter Overview -- Notes -- References -- 2: Mobilities and Communication Technologies: Transforming Care in Family Life -- Introduction -- Migration, Mobility and Communication Technologies Through the Lens of Family Caregiving -- Distant Care: New Media, ICTs and Mediated Caring -- The Limits of Distant Care and Policy Considerations -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Everyday Practices of Living in Multiple Places and Mobilities: Transnational, Transregional, and Intra-Communal Multi-Local Families -- Introduction -- Some Terminology Issues -- Research on the Phenomenon of Multi-local Family Life -- Family as Everyday Social Practice -- Doing Multi-local Family -- Methodology -- Managing Everyday Family Life: Three Examples -- Case Study 1: An Intra-communal Multi-local Family -- Case Study 2: A Transregional Multi-local Family -- Case Study 3: A Transnational Multi-local Family -- Comparing the Three Case Studies -- Requirements of Daily Life Management in Multi-local Families -- The Relevance of Different Contexts -- Different Time-Space Configurations -- Multiple Territorial Involvements -- Specific Constellations of Multi-locality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4: Polymedia Communication Among Transnational Families: What Are the Long-Term Consequences for Migration? -- Introduction -- Migration and Transnational Families -- Communication Technologies, Affordances, and Polymedia -- The Empirical and Research Contexts -- The Institutional Perspective -- The Migrant Mothers' Perspective -- The Left-Behind Families' Perspective.

The Consequences for Migration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5: Traveling to the USA for Fertility Services: Push and Pull Factors -- Introduction -- Reproductive Tourism, Biopolitical Regimes, and Migration -- Pushed to Migrate -- Expense of Services -- Size of Fertility Industry -- Restrictive Laws and Policies -- Policy Issue 1: ARTs Are Prohibited or Criminalized by Law or Policy -- Policy Issue 2: ARTs Are De Facto Unavailable Because of Regulation -- Policy Issue 3: Classes of People Are Excluded from Accessing ARTs -- Policy Issue 4: Regulation of ARTS Impinge on Intended Parents' and/or Third Parties' Privacy or Anonymity -- Pulled to Migrate -- Regulatory Climate -- Gamete Quality -- Perceived Quality and Safety of Health Care -- Legal Clarity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6: Transnational Surrogacy and 'Kinning' Rituals in India -- Introduction -- Commercial Surrogacy in India -- Researching the Field -- Gestational Mother-Child Tie -- Intended Mother and Child Tie -- Genetic-Gestational Mother Tie -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 7: Marriage Migration Policy as a Social Reproduction System: The South Korean Experience -- Introduction -- Scale and Pattern of Growth in Marriage Migration in Korea -- Accounting for the Growth in Marriage Migration: 'Bachelor Surplus' and Care Demand -- Marriage Migration Policy -- Entry and Settlement Policies -- Integration Policies: 'Multicultural Family Policy' -- The Social Reproductive Roles of Marriage Migrants Through the Family Life Course -- Marriage Migrants as Wives -- Marriage Migrants as Mothers -- Marriage Migrants as Daughters-in-Law -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 8: Strangers in Paradise? Italian Mothers in Norway -- Introduction -- Gender, Labour and Migration -- Migration, Class and Care -- The Study: Italian Migrants in Norway.

Changing Gender Ideologies in Italian Contexts -- Family Values and Images of 'Appropriate' Care -- Reconciliation of Work and Family Life -- Combining Studies and Family Life -- Informal Childcare -- Conclusions -- References -- 9: Transnational Mothers and the Law: Ghanaian Women's Pathways to Family Reunion and Consequences for Family Life -- Introduction -- Transnational Families, Reunification and Migration Policies -- Dutch Family Reunification Policies -- Methodology and Respondent Characteristics -- Encounters with Family Migration Policies -- The Income Requirement -- Proving the Family Bond -- Consequences for Family Strategies and Relationship Dynamics -- Family Strategies and the Timing of Reunion -- Dependencies and Limited Autonomy -- Coping with Restrictions to Reunification -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10: Fatherhood and Masculinities in Post-­socialist Europe: The Challenges of Transnational Migration -- Introduction -- Fatherhood, Masculinities and Gender Regimes in (Post-)Socialist Europe -- Socialist Heritage -- Post-socialist Transformation -- Fatherhood in Transnational Families -- Data -- Migrating Fathers -- 'Staying Behind' Fathers8 -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 11: Swedish Retirement Migrants in Spain: Mobility and Eldercare in an Aging Europe -- Introduction -- Mobilities, Eldercare and Care Regime -- Our Study: Methods and Material -- Rights, Obligations and Provision of Care and Services in IRM Destinations -- Informal and Formal Provision and Strategies for Care and Domestic Services -- Economic, Gendered and Health Differences Among IRMs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 12: Contrasts in Ageing and Agency in Family Migratory Contexts: A Comparison of Albanian and Latvian Older Migrants -- Introduction -- Albania and Latvia -- Problematizing 'Old-Age' and Ageing -- Methods and Projects.

Albanian Older People: Migratory Options and Constraints -- The Left-Behind Older Generation -- Follow-the-Children Migration -- Latvian Older Women: Migratory Routes to Empowerment -- Post-Socialist Latvia: A Bitter and Poor Old-Life? -- Work Abroad: A Fundamental Need for Ageing Latvian Women -- Reclaiming Femininity and Erotic Agency -- Comparative Discussion -- References -- 13: Defamilialization of Whom? Re-Thinking Defamilialization in the Light of Global Care Chains and the Transnational Circulation of Care -- Introduction -- Feminist Controversies -- Migration: A Pillar of Defamilialization in European Welfare States -- Migration: A Pathway Towards Defamilialization? -- Migrants' Working Conditions as Obstacles for Defamilialization -- Migrants' Intra-Familial Care Duties in the North -- Transnational Intra-Familial Care Beyond the Radar -- Case Studies -- Embedding Defamilialization in a Transnational Context -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 14: The Contested Meaning of Care in Migration Law -- Demise of the Breadwinner Citizen in the Dutch Gender Roles -- The Breadwinner Citizen in Current Dutch Migration Law: An Ambiguous Figure -- Family Life in the EU Regulation of Freedom of Movement -- The Primary Care Provider in EU Migration Law -- Anxiety Concerning the Nature of Home-­Based Care -- Family Life or Servitude? -- Employment, Exploitation or All in the Family? -- The Politics of Care -- Social Investment, National Identity and State Coercion -- Scope for Feminist Political Intervention? -- Notes -- References -- 15: Conclusions -- Freeing People to Move: So That Others May Stay Where They Want To? -- A Life-Course Perspective in Exploring Mobile Family Life -- Global Inequalities and Interdependencies in Mobility -- Policy Considerations for Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility -- Note -- References -- Index.

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