Families and Migration
Examining the Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Migration
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There are a multitude of reasons for migration: war, natural disaster, famine, poverty, or political oppression, among others. Immigrants or immigrant families commonly face many challenges in starting a new life in completely different cultural contexts. This edited collection provides a broad examination of immigrant families, with a particular focus on the causes, processes and consequences of migration. Families and Migration: Examining the Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Migration sheds light on the emotional, social, and economic impacts of migration on individuals and families, highlighting key themes such as mental health, labor dynamics, transnational care, and cultural adaptation. The chapters explore various contexts, from the mental health challenges of unaccompanied Latino adolescents in the United States to the global mobility of middle-class families from Hong Kong. They delve into the labor experiences of Nicaraguan mothers in Spain, the transnational care practices of Romanian families during COVID-19, and the cultural navigation of interracial families moving from the UK to Zimbabwe. Chapters also examines the role of family in Vietnamese labor migration to South Korea and the temporality of Ukrainian refugees in Romania. This collection is a timely resource for scholars interested in migration studies, family dynamics, and the socio-cultural impacts of global mobility.
Chapter 1. Acculturative Stress and Depressive Symptoms: Results from a Pilot Study Among Unaccompanied Latino Migrant Farmworker Adolescents in Florida Agriculture; Fiorella L. Carlos Chavez, Sahitya Maiya, Henry Gonzalez, Heidy Sarabia, Tracy Tang, and Evan P. Anderson
- Chapter 2. Contemporary Migration Patterns and Policies: Global Mobility among Middle-class Families from Hong Kong; Lucille Lok Sun Ngan and Queenie Kwan Yee Siu
- Chapter 3. The Migratory Experience of Nicaraguan Mothers working in the Spanish Domestic Work Sector; Renée DePalma, Verónica Verdía Varela, and Belén Fernández-Suárez
- Chapter 4. Transnational Romanian Families - CARE between Distance and Borders during COVID-19 Crisis; Iulia-Elena Hossu
- Chapter 5. Navigating New Cultural Landscapes: Exploration of Interracial Families' Experiences Immigrating from the UK to Zimbabwe; Calvin Kunaka
- Chapter 6. From Departure to Return: The Role of Family in Vietnamese Labour Migration to South Korea; Anh Nu Nguyet Nguyen
- Chapter 7. “I feel a permanent tension, a waiting […]”. Suspension Temporality in the Context of Ukrainian Refugees in Romania; Alina Bărbuță and Mara Birou
Josip Obradović is Professor at the Catholic University of Croatia. He has taught as Visiting Professor at New York University and University of Georgia and was a Fulbright Professor at Colorado College. He has published more than 100 research papers in Croatian and English, in addition to several books.
Sampson Lee Blair is a Family Sociologist and Demographer at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. A Fulbright Scholar Award recipient, he has served as Chair of the Children and Youth research section of the American Sociological Association and Vice-President of the Research Committee on Youth in the International Sociological Association.