Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility

In an age of migration and mobility many aspects of contemporary family life - from biological reproduction to marriage, from child-rearing to care of the elderly - take place against a backdrop of intensified movement across a range of spatial scales from the global to the local. This insightful book analyzes theopportunities and challenges this poses for families and for academic, empirical and policy understandings of 'the family' on a global level, including case studies from Europe, India, the Philippines, South Korea, the United States and Australia. With chapters oninternational reproductive tourism, transnational parenting, 'mail-order brides' and 'sunset migration', itexamines the implications of migration and mobility for families at different stages of the life course. Moreover, it brings togetherleading international scholars to connecta fragmented field of research, and in so doingenables an interdisciplinary exchange, generatingnew insights for theory, policy and empirical analysis.