Migration and Families in East and North Europe

Translocal Lifelines
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-13707-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Studies in Migration and Diaspora

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. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it considers the emotions, social relations, materialities and discourses that occur within family lives between Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, Russia and Sweden. With attention to the ways in which gender, generation, class and geography create and reinforce inequalities, strengths and vulnerabilities within and between families, it combines ethnographic, descriptive work with shorter photography-based chapters in order to allow textual and visual methods to complement one another. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and anthropology with interests in migration, transnationalism and the sociology of the family.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Assmuth, Laura

Aure, Marit

Hakkarainen, Marina

Siim, Pihla Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Translocal Familyhood and Lifelines across Borders 

Section I: Everyday Emotions

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


Commentary on Chapters 2 and 3

Translocal Lifelines through the Lens of Emotion: Dealing with Distance and Connection

Section II: Gender and Inequalities

4 Negotiating Same-sex Family Space between Finland and Russia

5 From Estonia to Finland: Women’s Stories of Inequality, Survival and Relatedness

Commentary on Chapters 4 and 5

Feeling Translocalism: Stretched and Connective Emotions through Time and Space

Section III: Materialities

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

Commentary on Chapters 6 and 7

The World Constituted through Photos

Section IV: Family Values and Integration

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

Commentary on Chapters 8 and 9

Family Values and Integration Narrated, Negotiated and Politicised

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.