Romanian Transnational Families: Gender, Family Practices and Difference

ISBN-13: 9783030079710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 106 str.

Viorela Ducu

Spis treści

1. Introduction.

2. Methodological challenges in transnational family research.

3. Two perspectives on family life through the lens of lodging type.

4. “Staying in touch” - views from abroad and from home.

5. Romanian children in multiple worlds.

6. Afterword: what next for Romanian transnational family research?.

O autorze

Viorela Ducu is Associate Researcher at the Centre for Population Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania. 

Blurb

This book explores novel aspects of transnational family research through the study of Romanian transnational families. A range of topics are covered, including the impact of lodging type upon life strategies; understudied elements in transnational relationships; gender roles in transnational communication; multinational relationships; the role of polymedia in the formation of couples; and the lives of the children of Romanian transnational families. The author presents the experiences of ‘leavers’ as well as of ‘stayers’; of the ‘highly-skilled’ as well as the ‘low-skilled’; that of women and that of men - through individual testimonies and couple interviews.

Romanian Transnational Families will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, anthropology and geography.

Chapter 3 and Chapter 5 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com