Gender, Family, and Adaptation of Migrants in Europe

This volume documents the life uncertainties revealed by migrants' biographies. For international migrants, life journeys are less conventional or patterned, while their family, work, and educational trajectories are simultaneously more fragmented and intermingled. The authors discuss the challenges faced by migrants and returnees when trying to make sense of their life courses after years of experience in other countries with different age norms and cultural values. The book also examines the ways to reconcile competing cultural expectations of both origin and destination societies regarding the timing of transitions between roles to provide a meaningful account of their life courses. Migration is, itself, a major life event, with profound implications for the pursuit of migrants' life goals, organization of family life, and personal networks, and it can affect, to a considerable degree, their subjective well-being.
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Applies the life course perspective in a comprehensive way that focuses on its interplay with migration, considering both the perspective of immigrants and the one of returnees Uses biographic interviews that provide original and rich data and are specifically designed to give priority to the life course of migrants and returnees from an interdisciplinary, socio-anthropological perspective. Addresses fields which were seldom or never addressed from a life-course approach, such as teenagers, or the effects of life satisfaction.

Auteur
Ionela Vlase is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania.
Bogdan Voicu is Professor of Sociology at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania, and First Degree Research Fellow with Romanian Academy, Research Institute for Quality of Life.

Contenu

1. Introduction: Uncertain biographies? A focus on migrants' life courses Ionela Vlase and Bogdan Voicu.- 2. Fringed life-satisfaction? A life-course perspective on the impact of international migration on subjective well-being - Bogdan Voicu.- 3. 'Walking Alongside' Polish Migrants in Ireland Individual Life Courses in the Context of Political, Social and Economic Change - Justyna Salamoska.- 4. 'And we are still here': Life courses and life conditions of Italian, Spanish and Portuguese retirees in Switzerland -Claudio Bolzman and Giacomo Vagni.- 5. Gendered migratory pathways: Exploring the work trajectories of long-term Romanian migrants- Alin Croitoru.- 6. Fragmented careers, gender, and migration during the Great Recession- Francesca Alice Vianello.- 7. Immigration, transition to parenthood and parenting - Anca Bejenaru.- 8. Women's stories of migration: Youth, personal agency, and linked lives - Ana Maria Preoteasa.- 9. Men's migration, adulthood, and the performance of masculinities - Ionela Vlase.- 10. Conclusion: Setting up an agenda for life course perspective in international migration Bogdan Voicu and Ionela Vlase