Full Description
This book provides a multi-disciplinary investigation of family reunification laws, policies and practices across the European Union.
Family reunification - the possibility for family members to (re)unite in a country where one of them is residing - has been high on the political agenda. Building on original empirical research with families and practitioners as well as in-depth doctrinal analyses, the book explores the fragmentation of legal rules, the gaps between formal regulations and practices, and their consequences for families across borders. Different contributions in the volume point to the growing inequalities among and within applicant families, based on residence status, gender, location, citizenship and socio-economic resources, due to the family reunification regimes currently in place.The book enhances interdisciplinary dialogue by providing clear insights into the specific contribution of migration law, private international law and social scientific analyses to the study of family reunification.
The book is aimed at researchers working on the topic of family reunification, as well as students of law and socio-legal studies and practitioners in the field of migration.
Chapter 16 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
1. Exploring Inequalities in Family Reunification in Europe: Perspectives from Legal and Social Sciences
Part I: Setting the Scene
2. A Right to Family Reunification in Europe: A Guide to the Labyrinth
3. Personal Status Across Borders: Family Reunification Procedures Meet Private International Law
4. Families, Family Norms and Policies: Insights from the Social Sciences
Part II: Unveiling Inequalities
5. Developing a Right to Family Reunification, Immigrant Integration and Equality in Europe
6. How Race and Gender Function in European Family Migration Law
7. Better off Without Parents? Refugee Children and Family Reunification: Norms and Ethical Concerns
Part III: Accessing Family Reunification
8. Moving in Circles: The Beginning and End of Exercising Free Movement Rights
9. Relationship Triangle and the Citizens Directive: Does Subsisting Marriage Exclude the Access to Derived Residence of Durable Partners?
10. The "Humanitarian" Clause of the Dublin III Regulation: Limiting Entrance, Gatekeeping Values
11. Family Reunification Policies in Italy: Ambivalences, Discrimination, Resistance
Part IV: Proving Family Ties
12. Family Reunification for "Paperless" Eritrean Refugees: A Pie in The Sky or a Realisable Right?
13. The Recognition of Child and Polygamous Marriages in Belgium: Alignment Between Private International Law and Migration Law?
14. Your Relationship is Genuine, but Your Marriage is Not. Defining Marriages of Convenience in EU and UK Law
15. Family Reunification and Administrative Citizenship: A Transnational Perspective
Part V: Navigating Regimes
16. Enforced Transnationalism: Refugees' Family Lives in Germany Under Conditions of Separation and Waiting
17. Reassembling the Right to Family Reunification for Refugees in Belgium through Social Work Practices of Welfare Bricolage
18. A Multi-Perspectivist Analysis of a Lived Family Reunification Experience: At the Junction of Co-Creative Research and Autoethnography
19. Domestic Violence Within the Securitisation of (Family and Love) Migration: The Case of Belgium
