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. Ionela Vlase is Senior Lecturerin 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. Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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 CoursesIonela Vlase and Bogdan Voicu

Part I: Life Strategies and Life-Choices Depending on Social Context
2: Fringed Life-Satisfaction? A Life-Course Perspective on the Impact of International Migration on Subjective Well-BeingBogdan Voicu

3: 'Walking Alongside' Polish Migrants in Ireland Individual Life Courses in the Context of Political, Social and Economic ChangeJustyna Salamoska

4: And We Are Still Here': Life Courses and Life Conditions of Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Retirees in SwitzerlandClaudio Bolzman and Giacomo Vagni

Part II: Work and Labor Market

5: Gendered Migratory Pathways: Exploring the Work Trajectories of Long-Term Romanian MigrantsAlin Croitoru

6: Fragmented Careers, Gender, and Migration during the Great RecessionFrancesca Alice Vianello

Part III: Gender and Family

7: Immigration, Transition to Parenthood and ParentingAnca Bejenaru

8: Women's Stories of Migration: Youth, Personal Agency, and Linked LivesAna 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 MigrationBogdan Voicu and Ionela Vlase