Migration and Families in East and North Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Translocal Lifelines
Redaktion: Assmuth, Laura; Siim, Pihla Maria; Hakkarainen, Marina; Aure, Marit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on fieldwork from various sites in northern and eastern Europe, this book explores the phenomenon of familyhood across borders, examining the experience of translocal familyhood and the manner in which lifelines in and between countries are formed when individual family members spend long periods away from home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000968699
• Artikelnr.: 69011759

Autorenporträt

Laura Assmuth is Professor Emerita of Social and Public Policy, University of Eastern Finland. Her research interests are migration and mobility, borders, translocal family and inequality. Assmuth is an experienced ethnographer, with fieldwork in several European countries. She has led several international research projects resulting in publications in many languages. Marit Aure is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Her research interests encompass international and national migration and integration, gender, masculinity, employment-related mobility, (coastal) rural and urban development, just cities and art-based action-oriented research. Aure engages in participatory research. Marina Hakkarainen is an independent researcher living in Finland and a fellow of the European University at St. Petersburg. She is a candidate of sciences in history, specialising in ethnology and anthropology. She has conducted ethnographic research among indigenous Siberian communities, rural localities in European Russia and Jewish communities in Ukraine. Her recent research interests include migration and mobility, post-Soviet subjectivities and economic relations. Pihla Maria Siim is a postdoctoral researcher at the Migration Institute, Finland, also affiliated to the University of Tartu, Estonia. She has worked on issues related to children and mobility and translocal families and intimacy, mainly in the Estonian-Finnish context. She has also published on folkloristic fieldwork practices, family storytelling and storycrafting method.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Translocal Familyhood and Lifelines across Borders
2 Overcoming the Burden of Distance: Emotions in the Family Lives of
Estonian Men Working in Finland
3 Place Attachment and Translocal Ties: Adult Descendants of Polish
Migrants in Sweden
Translocal Lifelines through the Lens of Emotion: Dealing with Distance and
Connection
4 Negotiating Same-sex Family Space between Finland and Russia
5 From Estonia to Finland: Women's Stories of Inequality, Survival and
Relatedness
Feeling Translocalism: Stretched and Connective Emotions through Time and
Space
6 Representing Translocal Taste Buds: An Exploration of Photography as a
Method
7 Claiming Translocal Place among Romanian Roma Migrants in Helsinki:
Infrastructures, Urban Encounters and Displacement
The World Constituted through Photos
8 Lines of Differentiation and Connection in Translocal Lithuanian Lives:
Stories about the Norwegian Child Welfare Service
9 Integration, the Generation Gap and Continuity in Russian-speaking
Translocal Families in Finland
Family Values and Integration Narrated, Negotiated and Politicised
Index