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Author:   Majella Kilkey ,  Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck ,  David Shepherd
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   6.014kg
ISBN:  

9781137520975

ISBN 10:   1137520973
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   28 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction. Family life in an age of migration and mobility: introducing a global and family life course perspective; Majella Kilkey and Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck 1. Mobilities and communication technologies: transforming care in family life; Loretta Baldassar 2. Everyday practices of living in multiple places and mobilities: transnational, transregional and intra-communal multi-local families; Michaela Schier 3. Polymedia communication among transnational families: what are the long-term consequences for migration?; Mirca Madianou 4. Travelling to the United States for fertility services: push and pull factors; Lauren Jade Martin 5. Transnational surrogacy and ‘kinning’ rituals in India; Amrita Pande 6. Marriage migration policy as a social reproduction system: The South Korean experience; Gyuchan Kim and Majella Kilkey 7. Strangers in Paradise?  Migrant Italian mothers in Norway; Lise Widding Isaksen 8. Transnational mothering and the law: Ghanaian women’s pathways to family reunion and consequences for family life; Miranda Poeze and Valentina Mazzucato 9. Fatherhood and masculinities in post socialist Europe: the challenges of transnational migration; Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck and Helma Lutz 10. Swedish retirement migrants in Spain: mobility and eldercare in an ageing Europe; Anna Gavanas and Ines Calzada 11. Contrasts in ageing and agency in family migratory contexts: a comparison of Albanian and Latvian older migrants; Russell King, Julie Vullnetari, Aija Lulle and Eralba Cela 12. Defamilialization of whom? Re-thinking defamilialization in the light of global care chains and the transnational circulation of care; Florence Degavre and Laura Merla 13.The contested meaning of care in migration law; Sarah van Walsum Conclusions; Majella Kilkey and Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck

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Majella Kilkey is Reader in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her current research centers on migration and families.  Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Gender Studies Department at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Her research interests include migration, transnationalism, gender studies and care work. 

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