Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Preface 9
4. 1. Introduction Issues and debates on family-related migration and the migrant family: A European perspective 13
5. Section I. The family as a moral and social order
6. 2. Sex and the regulation of belonging: Dutch family migration policies in the context of changing family norms 57
7. 3. Marriages, arranged and forced: The UK debate 77
8. 4. Filial obligations among immigrants and native Dutch: A comparison of perceptions and behaviour among ethnic groups and generations 99
9. 5. Social construction of neglect: The case of unaccompanied minors from Morocco to Spain 121
10. Section II. Gender, generation and work in the migrant family
11. 6. The problem of ‘human capital’: Gender, place and immigrant household strategies of reskilling in Vancouver 141
12. 7. The transmission of labour commitment within families of migrant entrepreneurs in France and Spain 163
13. 8. Spousal reunification among recent immigrants in Spain: Links with undocumented migration and the labour market 193
14. Section III. Marriage migration and gender relations
15. 9. Cross-border marriage as a migration strategy: Thai women in the Netherlands 221
16. 10. Marriage across space and time among male migrants from Cameroon to Germany 243
17. 11. ‘He’s the Swiss citizen, I’m the foreign spouse’: Binational marriages and the impact of family-related migration policies on gender relations 265
18. Section IV. Transnational family lives and practices
19. 12. Transnational family life and female migration in Italy: One or multiple patterns? 287
20. 13. Civic stratification, stratified reproduction and family solidarity: Strategies of Latino families in Milan 313
21. 14. Gender and intergenerational issues in the circulation of highly skilled migrants: The case of Indian IT professionals 335
22. 15. Negotiating transnational caring practices among migrant families 355
23. List of contributors 374
24. Index 379