Transnational families. social? Political? Cultural?
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Transnational families
Transnational familiesLoretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla, Raelene Wilding
Transnational familiesLoretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla, Raelene WildingThe Wiley Blackwell companion to the sociology of families, 155-175, 2014
Transnational familiesLoretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla, Raelene WildingThe Wiley Blackwell companion to the sociology of families, 155-175, 2014Mobility has become such a feature of contemporary life that it has been touted as a new paradigm for the social sciences (Urry, 2000). Traditionally the domain of scholars working on migration and demography, the study of transnational mobility is now increasingly relevant to other areas of study, including family studies. The notion of transnational families has been developed as a way of conceptualizing how families are affected by mobility (Bryceson and Vuorela, 2002; Baldassar, Baldock, and Wilding, 2007). This chapter provides an overview of current thinking, incorporating new research results and emerging debates, in this burgeoning field of transnational family research. We begin with three evocative case studies, from our own research, that capture something of the diversity of experiences of transnational families as well as their interconnections across the globe.