Managing Difference in Eastern-European Transnational Families. Eds.ViorelaDucuand Aron Telegdi Csetri. Frankfurt am Main, New York, Ofxord: Peter Lang, 2016.

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 Studies in this book have been gathered on the occasion of two academic events in the field of Transnational Families, focusing on the Eastern-European space, from a – diversified – qualitative social research perspective. The volume places a special emphasis on a gendered and practice-oriented approach, exploring territories of domination and empowerment that inform the negotiation of difference. Studies follow processes of emancipation, family practices, redistribution of gendered roles, forms of abuse, social remittance, confrontation between rights and cultures, forming joint action strategies and egalitarian capital, in a process of emergence of new social actors. Studies reflect back upon the ambiguity of conceptual frameworks to be put to use while approaching this yet unexplored area.

Key words: Eastern-European, transnational families, migration, gender, motherhood, fatherhood, childhood

 Contents

 Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

 Couples within the Context of Migration

 Áron Telegdi-Csetri, Viorela Ducu. Transnational Difference – Cosmopolitan Meaning

 Transnational Families in a Gendered Perspective

 Alissa Tolstokorova. Partitioned Paternity: Models of Cross-border Fathering in Ukrainian Transnational Families

 Rafaela Hilario Pascoal, Adina Nicoleta Erica Schwartz. How Family and Emotional Ties Are Used as Coercive Instruments by the Exploiters on the Romanian Feminine Migration. The Study Case of Italy

 Anca Raluca Aștilean. The Issue of Emancipation in the Case of Romanian Migrant Women

 Armela Xhaho, Erka Çaro. Gendered Work-Family Balance in Migration: Albanian Migrants in Greece

 Couples within the Context of Migration

 Magdalena Żadkowska, Tomasz Szlendak. Egalitarian Capital Gained in Norway or Brought from Poland? Experiences of Migration and Gender Equality among Polish Couples in Norway  

 Nóra Kovác. Global Migration and Intermarriage in Chinese-Hungarian Context

 Viorela Ducu, Iulia Hossu. Bi-national Couples with a Romanian Partner in the European Context

 Challenges of Transnationalism towards Childhood

Georgiana-Cristina Rentea, Laura-Elena Rotărescu. Yesterday’s Children, Today’s Youth: The Experiences of Children Left Behind by Romanian Migrant Parents

Bojan Perovic. Intercountry Adoption: a Human Rights Perspective

 Index