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Childhood and Parenting in Transnational Settings

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Editors:
  1. Viorela Ducu

    1. Center for Population Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania

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  2. Mihaela Nedelcu

    1. Institute of Sociology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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  3. Aron Telegdi-Csetri

    1. Center for Population Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania

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  • Discusses children, parents and grandparents as principal and delicate actors of migration and distant lives
  • Explores transnational contemporary dynamics in geographical contexts
  • Focuses on children and young people
  • Provides a complete overview on both hosting and sending countries

Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Migration (IPMI, volume 15)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Overview: Transnational Times in Global Spaces – Childhood and Parenting in the Age of Movement

    • Áron Telegdi-Csetri
    Pages 1-8

  4. Challenges of Migration in Parenting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Daddy’s Dividends: Modernization of Fatherhood in Transnational Families of Ukrainian Migrant Women

      • Alissa V. Tolstokorova
      Pages 103-118

    3. Parenting from a Distance: The Shifting Topology of Care in the Net Era

      • Carlotta Monini
      Pages 119-136

    4. Trajectories of Situated Transnational Parenting – Caregiving Arrangements of East European Labour Migrants in Sweden

      • Charlotte Melander, Oksana Shmulyar Green
      Pages 137-154

    5. Older Parents in Romania as a Resource for their Migrant Adult Children

      • Mihaela Hărăguș, Ionuț Földes, Veronica Savu
      Pages 155-173

    6. Zero Generation Grandparents Caring for Their Grandchildren in Switzerland. The Diversity of Transnational Care Arrangements among EU and Non-EU Migrant Families

      • Malika Wyss, Mihaela Nedelcu
      Pages 175-190

    7. Afterword: Gender Practices in Transnational Families

      • Viorela Ducu
      Pages 191-204Open Access
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About this book

This book describes children and youth on the one hand and parents on the other within the newly configured worlds of transnational families. Focus is put on children born abroad, brought up abroad, studying abroad, in vulnerable situations, and/or subject of trafficking. The book also provides insight into the delicate relationships that arise with parents, such as migrant parents who are parenting from a distance, elderly parents supporting migrant adult children, fathers left behind by migration, and Eastern-European parents in Nordic countries.  It also touches upon life strategies developed in response to migration situations, such as the transfer of care, transnational (virtual) communication, common visits (to and from), and the co-presence of family members in each other’s (distant) lives. As such this book provides a wealth of information for researchers, policy makers and all those working in the field of migration and with migrants.
The chapter 'Afterword:Gender Practices in Transnational Families' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Population Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania

    Viorela Ducu, Aron Telegdi-Csetri

  • Institute of Sociology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Mihaela Nedelcu

About the editors

Viorela Ducu has a strong research interest in alternative family types, such as ethnically/nationally mixed and transnational families. At present, she is a post-doctoral researcher in the project “Intergenerational solidarity in the context of work migration abroad - The situation of elderly left at home” and  principal investigator of the project Confronting difference through the practices of transnational families at the Centre for Population Studies, at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.

Mihaela Nedelcu holds a PhD in sociology and she is Associate Professor at the Sociology Institute, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her research in the field of Migration studies focuses on transnational families, ageing migrants, highly skilled migrations, e-diasporas, e-borders and questions, in particular, the impact of digital technologies on migration processes through a cosmopolitan lens.



ÁronTelegdi-Csetri, PhD in Political Philosophy, has dealt with Kant’s political philosophy in his thesis, reaching out towards contemporary cosmopolitanism in his post-doctoral projects. He has interests in models of cosmopolitanism and transnationalism, with an emphasis on cosmopolitan education and socialization. At present, he is Voluntary Researcher in the project Confronting difference through the practices of transnational families at the Center for Population Studies at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Childhood and Parenting in Transnational Settings

  • Editors: Viorela Ducu, Mihaela Nedelcu, Aron Telegdi-Csetri

  • Series Title: International Perspectives on Migration

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90942-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90941-7Published: 20 June 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08137-9Published: 10 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90942-4Published: 08 June 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9805

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9813

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 204

  • Topics: Migration, Family

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