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Family life in an age of migration and mobility : global perspectives through the life course /
In an age of migration and mobility many aspects of contemporary family life -- from biological reproduction to marriage, from child-rearing to care of the elderly - take place against a backdrop of intensified movement across a range of spatial scales from the global to the local. This insightful b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Colección: | Migration, diasporas and citizenship.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; In Commemoration of Sarah Van Walsum, 1955-2014; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction: Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Introducing a Global and Family Life-Course Perspective; Chapter Overview; Notes; References; 2: Mobilities and Communication Technologies: Transforming Care in Family Life; Introduction; Migration, Mobility and Communication Technologies Through the Lens of Family Caregiving; Distant Care: New Media, ICTs and Mediated Caring; The Limits of Distant Care and Policy Considerations.
- ConclusionReferences; 3: Everyday Practices of Living in Multiple Places and Mobilities: Transnational, Transregional, and Intra-Communal Multi-Local Families; Introduction; Some Terminology Issues; Research on the Phenomenon of Multi-local Family Life; Family as Everyday Social Practice; Doing Multi-local Family; Methodology; Managing Everyday Family Life: Three Examples; Case Study 1: An Intra-communal Multi-local Family; Case Study 2: A Transregional Multi-local Family; Case Study 3: A Transnational Multi-local Family; Comparing the Three Case Studies.
- Requirements of Daily Life Management in Multi-local Families The Relevance of Different Contexts; Different Time-Space Configurations; Multiple Territorial Involvements; Specific Constellations of Multi-locality; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4: Polymedia Communication Among Transnational Families: What Are the Long-Term Consequences for Migration?; Introduction; Migration and Transnational Families; Communication Technologies, Affordances, and Polymedia; The Empirical and Research Contexts; The Institutional Perspective; The Migrant Mothers' Perspective.
- The Left-Behind Families' Perspective The Consequences for Migration; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5: Traveling to the USA for Fertility Services: Push and Pull Factors; Introduction; Reproductive Tourism, Biopolitical Regimes, and Migration; Pushed to Migrate; Expense of Services; Size of Fertility Industry; Restrictive Laws and Policies; Policy Issue 1: ARTs Are Prohibited or Criminalized by Law or Policy; Policy Issue 2: ARTs Are De Facto Unavailable Because of Regulation; Policy Issue 3: Classes of People Are Excluded from Accessing ARTs.
- Policy Issue 4: Regulation of ARTS Impinge on Intended Parents' and/or Third Parties' Privacy or Anonymity Pulled to Migrate; Regulatory Climate ; Gamete Quality; Perceived Quality and Safety of Health Care; Legal Clarity; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6: Transnational Surrogacy and 'Kinning' Rituals in India; Introduction; Commercial Surrogacy in India; Researching the Field; Gestational Mother-Child Tie; Intended Mother and Child Tie; Genetic-Gestational Mother Tie; Conclusions; Notes; References.