Full Description
This open access book examines the impacts and experiences of family separation on forced migrants and their transnational families. On the one hand, it investigates how people with a forced migration background in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America experience separation from their families, and on the other, how family and kin in the countries of origin or transit are impacted by the often precarious circumstances of their family members in receiving countries. In particular, this book provides new knowledge on the nexus between transnational family separation, forced migration, and everyday (in)security. Additionally, it yields comparative information for assessing the impacts of relevant legislation and administrative practice in a number of national contexts. Based on rich empirical data, including unique cases about South-South migration, the findings in this book are highly relevant to academics in migration and refugee studies as well as policy-makers, legislators and practitioners.
Contents
Part 1: Introduction.- Chapter 1. From Forced Migration to the Forced Separation of Families.- Chapter 2. International Human Rights Frameworks in Relation to National Family Reunification Policy and Administrative Practice.- Part II: Everyday Insecurities Faced by Transnationally Separated Families.- Chapter 3. Recognizing Insecurities of Family Members Abroad: Human Rights Balancing in European and Finnish Case Law.- Chapter 4. 'There is no family here': Refugees' Strategies for Family Reunification in São Paulo.- Chapter 5. 'She Died While Missing Us': Experiences of Family Separation Among African Refugees in Israel.- Chapter 6. For the Greater Good: The Economic and Social Impacts of Irregular Migration on Families in Benin City, Nigeria.- Chapter 7. 'Mum, I Sleep Under a Bridge': Everyday Insecurities of the Families of Rejected Asylum Seekers in Somalia.- Part III: Affective Responses and Waiting for Family Reunification.- Chapter 8. Mapping Conditions of (In)security for 'Dreamer Parents' at the Mexico-US Border.- Chapter 9. Gendered Family Dynamics, Waiting and Mobilities Across Borders: Syrian Refugees Navigating Displacement in Jordan.- Chapter 10. 'Doing Family' as a Separated Household: The Experience of Syrian Refugees in Germany and Lebanon.- Chapter 11. Navigating Affective (In)securities: Forced Migration and Transnational Family Relationships.- Chapter 12. Forced Migration and Evolving Responses to Queer Identity in the Muslim Family.
