Sociologists and anthropologists have focused considerable attention on contemporary transnational flows of capital, labour and culture, as well as on the ways in which communities create and maintain transnational ties. However very few have studied the specific role of the family in transnational processes and fewer still have looked at how families actually function in transnational space. In this book, Schmalzbauer addresses this gap in the literature by investigating how transnationalism works as a survival strategy in which families use the difference in living costs between Honduras...