Families, Foreignness, Migration. Now and Then. Introduction.

Autor(en)

Machteld Venken, Leen Beyers, Idesbald Goddeeris

Abstrakt

Introducing the special issue on ‘Families, Foreignness and Migration. Now and Then’, this essay starts from the observation that in Western Europe migrating with or without one's family in the last century was increasingly shaped by state policies. As a result, migrants' identities and family experiences not only depended, and still depend, on their cultural backgrounds but also on very time-specific politics of foreignness and citizenship. The essay's main argument is that comparing and deconstructing perceptions, policies and practices of ‘family’ and migration help to overcome the limited attention given to age and kin in the study of gender and migration. From an overview of contributions to this interdisciplinary issue, it is clear that deconstructing ‘family’ in migration studies should be developed further along three axes: child migration, the multi-level analysis of family and migration, including societies of origin and migrant organizations, and the comparison of ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ migrants, which contributes to uncovering the relationship between foreignness, gender and age.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte

Journal

The History of the Family

Band

14

Seiten

125-131

Anzahl der Seiten

7

ISSN

1081-602X

Publikationsdatum

2009

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

601022 Zeitgeschichte, 504021 Migrationsforschung

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/1463a057-9d71-4579-b645-d2564ad87863