The Multidimensional Nature of Family Migration: Transnational and Mixed Families in Europe

Abstract By analysing interviews from a larger qualitative study conducted in a Romanian village (Vulturu, Vrancea County) from the South-East region of the country, this paper explores the ways Romanian migrants’ children who were born in the country of origin but migrated to Italy or the so-called 1.5 Generation (Rumbaut 2002; 2012) talk about their ties with the home country. In other words, is Romania presented as more - or something else - than the original homeland? The study analyses the concept of home attachment in terms of transnationalism understood as affective ties (Huynh and Yiu 2012; Paraschivescu 2011). Based on evidence from interview data a typology of attachment to the home country is outlined and further discussed. The results point to the conclusion that the issue of attachment to the home country is discursively constructed by respondents both explicitly and implicitly by multiple references to the family migration project and their immigrant status at destination. Moreover, I argue that the different types of attachment identified in the interviewees’ discourses are mediated by the subjective assessment of the integration experience into the host country.

Download Full-text

A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Family Migration and Household Production: Comment

Southern Economic Journal ◽

10.2307/1061319 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

pp. 255

Author(s):

Brian Roe

Keyword(s):

Empirical Analysis ◽

Household Production ◽

Family Migration

Download Full-text

Converting to Islam and Returning to Christianity

Christian Martyrs under Islam ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691179100.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 29-79

Author(s):

Christian C. Sahner

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Religious Change ◽

Early Medieval ◽

Mixed Families

This chapter explores the nature of conversion in the early medieval Middle East by focusing on the first half of these convert martyrs, who began their lives as Christians, embraced Islam, and then returned to Christianity. Among these, there were several subgroups, including Christians who converted to Islam as slaves or prisoners, Christians who converted under disputed or contingent circumstances, and martyrs who were brought up in religiously mixed families. Because of the contingent nature of this process, conversions could also be undone, leading to sizable numbers of apostates over the course of the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries. Even if the number of apostates paled in comparison with the number of those who converted and remained Muslims, their paths in and out of Islam tells a great deal about how conversion worked, especially the myriad social, spiritual, economic, and political pressures that powered religious change in the period.

Download Full-text