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Transnational mothers and the law
- Source :
- Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility ISBN: 9781137520975, Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Global Perspectives through the Life Course, 187-211, STARTPAGE=187;ENDPAGE=211;TITLE=Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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Abstract
- How migration policies affect family mobility and relationships is a new and emerging area of study within transnational family literature. This chapter contributes to this literature by providing an in-depth examination of ghanaian migrant mothers’ encounters with dutch family migration policies and the impacts such policies have on their pathways to family reunion and the consequences for family relationships. The data come from qualitative research with 32 female ghanaian migrants in the netherlands. Adopting a gender-sensitive approach, our study shows discrepancies between the normative frameworks that underlie formal conditions to family reunion and female migrants’ family lives. Moreover, it shows that restrictive migration policies constrain women’s flexibility, a key aspect of ghanaian family life, and shape dependencies and inequalities within families.keywordsdestination countrymigration policyfamily reunionfamily migrationresidence permitthese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
- Subjects :
- 050502 law
Family migration
Inequality
Area studies
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05 social sciences
Flexibility (personality)
Gender studies
Affect (psychology)
Family life
0506 political science
050602 political science & public administration
Normative
Sociology
0505 law
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Qualitative research
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-1-137-52097-5
- ISBNs :
- 9781137520975
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility ISBN: 9781137520975, Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Global Perspectives through the Life Course, 187-211, STARTPAGE=187;ENDPAGE=211;TITLE=Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cb57136cc8dbba9f5ab15f0ab2aa6096