Moulding the migrant family

This paper offers a critical perspective on how immigration control regulates the family lives of British residents and nationals of migrant descent. Family migration is problematic for a government determined to restrict long-term immigration to the skilled. The extended or ‘corporate’ family is particularly problematic because it also causes the reproduction of forms of family life that are regarded as oppressive and a barrier to cohesion. Policies have tended to minimise these forms of migration, and recent changes and proposals are consistent with that. The result is the increased marginalisation or exclusion of some migrants and pressure on migrant family life to conform more closely to majority norms.

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Dynamics of change in transnational families ̶ Biographical perspectives on family figurations between Spain and Ecuador

Zeitschrift für Familienforschung ◽

10.3224/zff.v31i3.02 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (3-2019) ◽

pp. 264-286

Author(s):

Christian Schramm

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Social Space ◽

Sudden Change ◽

Transnational Families ◽

National Society ◽

Transnational Family ◽

The Family ◽

Transnational Social Space ◽

Self Presentations

This paper explores the figurational process in transnational families through the study of the biographical self-presentations and the life courses of family members who live apart (in Bilbao, Spain and Guayaquil, Ecuador) but remain interdependent. It asks which factors inside and outside the family figuration influence the negotiation of the fragile power balances along gender and generational lines, with what effect for the structure of positions, family norms, mutual expectations and the division of tasks. Special attention is given to the deep financial and economic crisis affecting Spain between 2008 and 2014 and how this sudden change of the context in one national society impacts the transnational family life. Results highlight the importance of the long-term pre-migration family figurational process for the way transnational family life is being shaped. They also show how a variety of influencing factors, observed during the migration period and located in different national societies and the transnational social space, is intertwined with the logic of this long-term process.

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8. Family life

Immigration & Asylum Law ◽

10.1093/he/9780198815211.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Gina Clayton ◽

Georgina Firth ◽

Caroline Sawyer ◽

Rowena Moffatt ◽

Helena Wray

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

Family Members ◽

European Economic Area ◽

European Economic ◽

Economic Area ◽

The Family ◽

The Uk ◽

Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. This chapter focuses on non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals who wish to live permanently with family members who are settled in or are nationals of the UK. The family members of those coming to work or study and of refugees are also briefly considered. It examines marriage-related applications, that is, applications to join a spouse, fiancé(e), civil or long-term partner. It considers the rules relating to adult family members and children; the family life of those with limited leave; refugees and asylum seekers.

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Portraying Migrant Families in Academic Publications: Naming and Framing

Vilnius University Open Series ◽

10.15388/os.2020.4 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 65-76

Author(s):

Irena Juozeliūnienė ◽

Indrė Bielevičiūtė ◽

Irma Budginaitė-Mačkinė

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Research Council ◽

Family Relations ◽

Research Project ◽

Global Migration ◽

Migrant Families ◽

The Family ◽

Family Boundaries ◽

Academic Publications ◽

Migrant Family

In this chapter the authors set out to examine how migrant families are named and framed in academic publications by Lithuanian researchers published from 2004 to 2017, available in Lithuanian and international academic databases. The authors aim to disclose how Lithuanian academics perceive the change of family boundaries and fluidity of family relations in the context of global migration, and how the meanings of ‘change’ are used within academic publications that have sought to define the migrant family life as ‘troubling’. The analysis of publications presented in this chapter was carried out from January to March 2018. It formed a sub-study of the research project ‘Global Migration and Lithuanian Family: Family Practices, Circulation of Care, and Return Strategies’ (2017–2019), funded by the Lithuanian Research Council. The analysis has revealed that Lithuanian researchers portray migrant families as extended in space, liquid, networked, survived, but unsecure because of ongoing risks as well as experiencing ‘losses’ or/ and ‘gains’. The researchers conclude that portraits presented by the academics are framed by the family ideology, while naming of migrant families highly rely on the images of ‘how a family should be’.

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8. Family life

10.1093/he/9780198848936.003.0008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 279-331

Author(s):

Gina Clayton ◽

Georgina Firth ◽

Caroline Sawyer ◽

Rowena Moffatt

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Family Life ◽

Family Members ◽

European Economic Area ◽

European Economic ◽

The Family ◽

Impact On Family ◽

The Uk ◽

Refugees And Asylum Seekers

This chapter focuses on non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals who wish to live permanently with family members who are settled in or are nationals of the UK. The first part of the chapter covers human rights, particularly Article 8 and its impact on family life. The second part of the chapter considers the immigration rules. The family members of those coming to work or study and of refugees are also briefly considered. It examines marriage-related applications, that is, applications to join a spouse, fiancé(e), civil, or long-term partner. It considers the rules relating to adult family members and children, the family life of those with limited leave, and refugees and asylum seekers.

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Shifting Geographical Configurations in Migrant Families: Narratives of Children Reunited with their Mothers in Italy

Comparative Population Studies ◽

10.12765/cpos-2013-01 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Paola Bonizzoni ◽

Luisa Leonini

Keyword(s):

International Migration ◽

Family Life ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Family Migration ◽

Migration Process ◽

Family Ties ◽

Transnational Family ◽

Migrant Families ◽

The Family ◽

Family Practices

The article explores the experiences of separation and reunification by children of migrant mothers in Italy by analysing 32 qualitative interviews conducted with adolescents who had rejoined their mothers at different points in their lives. We show that international migration causes children to face multiple shifts in the configuration of their family ties due to the geographical dislocations and re-locations to which these ties are subject. The way in which children interpret and adjust to these changes depends on factors such as the timing of the family migration process and the frequency of transnational family practices, which are affected by more or less abrupt discontinuities in family life after their mothers’ and their own departure.

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