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Titolo: |
Transnational families : ethnicities, identities and social capital / / Harry Goulbourne. [et al.]
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.85086/9120941 |
306.85089 | |
Soggetto topico: | Immigrant families - Great Britain |
Transnationalism | |
Families | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
GoulbourneHarry
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I Some general questions; 1 Theorizing transnational families; 2 Social capital joins the trinity: Families, ethnicities, communities; 3 Methodological issues and challenges; 4 The politics of migration; Part II Living and coping across boundaries; 5 Migrants, offspring and settlement; 6 Families, needs and caring practices; 7 Continuity and invention of identities within families and communities; 8 Problems of belonging and 'return'; 9 Alienation and escape from the family and community |
10 Crossing boundaries: Problems and opportunities in 'mixed' families11 Conclusion: Transnational families, policy and research challenges; Bibliography; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Contemporary Western society is changing and, controversially, migration is often flagged up as one of the reasons why. The nature of population change challenges the conventional understandings of family forms and networks whilst multiculturalism poses challenges to our understanding of social change, families and social capital. This innovative book provides an overview of the emergence of new understandings of ethnicities, identities and family forms across a number of ethnic groups, family types, and national boundaries. Based on new empirical data from fairly distinct set |
Titolo autorizzato: | Transnational families ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-135-18195-0 |
1-282-57604-6 | |
9786612576041 | |
0-203-86218-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910457088603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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