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Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility

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This chapter revisits the three analytical lenses—a migration and mobilities lens, a global lens and a family life-course lens—that frame the volume—Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Global Perspectives through the Life Course. The chapter considers the contribution the volume makes to empirical and theoretical understandings of family life in an age of migration and mobility by adopting those three frames—a migration and mobilities lens, a global lens and a family life-course lens. The chapter also examines what common policy-related concerns emerge from the case studies examined in the volume.

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    In this context it has to be acknowledged that the conceptualization of family underlying the chapters of the present volume could be criticized as heteronormative. This was not intentional on our part, however; rather, the topics covered in the book reflect those of an international body of scholars presented at the conference from which this book is derived. The omission of an explicit discussion of the challenges that same-sex parents face in the context of migration and mobility in this volume, therefore, is a symptom of a widespread neglect of such issues in migration studies and should not be construed as a normative position on our part. This also means that issues of same-sex parenting and migration are a potential topic for future research.

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Kilkey, M., Palenga-Möllenbeck, E. (2016). Conclusions. In: Kilkey, M., Palenga-Möllenbeck, E. (eds) Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52099-9_15

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