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Studying transnationalism

On the empirical assessment and the overarching connections between diverse transnational activities

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The New Diversity of Family Life in Europe

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New patterns of migratory movements are nowadays influencing families in large parts of Europe. Migration represents a considerable tension for social ties even when only one family member migrates. Additionally, women are nowadays as likely to migrate to another country as first family members as men are (Schapiro et al. 2013: 48).

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Riedel, S. (2017). Studying transnationalism. In: Çitlak, B., Kurtenbach, S., Lueneburg, M., Zlatkova, M. (eds) The New Diversity of Family Life in Europe. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17857-4_2

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