http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/8668 2026-04-20T12:21:31Z 2026-04-20T12:21:31Z Crespi, Isabella http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9081 2026-02-23T07:23:47Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Families and Intergenerational Relations in Migration: Challenges and Opportunities Crespi, Isabella In a worldwide context of growing migration processes, international research confirms the central role that families play in the migration plans and strategies of individuals, including the decision to emigrate and which family members must or can do so. The family also takes on considerable importance in defining subsequent modifications, such as the length and development of migratory projects. The “migrant family” is located in a social system where roles and relationships can be partially or completely different. The settlement of individuals in the receiving country, and their changing migration plans and strategies follow multiple pathways. The experience of migration, with its cultural and emotional break-ups can redefine and reorganise networks and relational dynamics, particularly between men and women, parents, grandparents and children. In particular, transnational families designate family networks composed of members who live in two or more countries, but maintain a sense of ‘familyhood’ across distance, time, and exchange, to various degrees, care and support. Relevant are the various ways in which they maintain family ties and connections across national borders and across generations and the pressures and transformations that may arise within and across the generations because of their embeddedness in different socio-cultural contexts.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Santagati, Mariagrazia http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9080 2026-02-23T07:23:46Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Family Migration and Education Mobility. Pathways to Success in Autobiographies of Girls of Moroccan Origin Santagati, Mariagrazia The article proposes an in-depth analysis of the link between family migration and educational mobility, using data deriving from an original qualitative study on successful students with an immigrant background. First, a conceptual framework is provided, identifying some crucial theoretical and empirical issues concerning migrant families: educational mobility as a family strategy and project; the challenges of intergenerational transmission in revisiting cultural and ethnic identities; the importance of the “act of passing on” trough family relations. Second, autobiographies of students of immigrant origin are used to examine whether and in what conditions family functions as a driver of educational success. Through the biographical approach, strategies and narratives students adopt to represent family migration and the relationships with parents are reconstructed. Finally, using the outlined conceptual frame, the emblematic stories of Amna, Ikram, and Sole, three girls of Moroccan origin, are chosen and analyzed, in order to illustrate different ways values, norms, and behaviors are negotiated in order to reshape family identities and ties, towards the common goal of educational success.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Scocco, Marta http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9079 2026-02-23T07:23:45Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Transnational Families' Experiences. A Research on Generations of Italians Living in Belgium Scocco, Marta The research in question, through a qualitative methodology, analyzes how socialization processes can evolve through generations within the family dimension. Migration experiences are indeed very different from one generation to another. Moreover, it turns out like the transnational social fields in which migrants and their descendents are embedded, span different countries and form a significant context for their everyday lives. The country chosen as case study is also for this reason Belgium, where the Italian presence is still very relevant and rooted in the territory. The study was attended by descendants of Italians who emigrated in the country after the Second World War. It seemed relevant to propose a research that deal with the Italian emigration of the past, analyzing however the most recent implications. The result is a complex renegotiation process of the migratory experience that takes place in the family dimension across generations, both of relationships and of transcultural practices.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Dhëmbo, Elona http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9078 2026-02-23T07:23:43Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

How does informal transnational social protection bond families across boarders? The case of Albanian migrants and their transnational families Dhëmbo, Elona Understanding the relationship between migration, social protection and doing family in transnational settings is important, both at academic and policy level. Migration disturbs safety nets and it created new realities such as transnational families. Migrants and their left behind families try to close the gap that arises between mobile social needs and static services and provisions. In doing so they (re)invent doing family in a transnational context and the protection they offer to one another primarily in the form of remittance, knowledge transfer, time and emotional care tend to provide solid grounds for bonding them across borders. Looking at the case of Albanian migrants and their transnational families, we reconfirm old patterns and sketch new trends in informal transnational protection practices which construct main fundamental ties holding transnational families together and are key in building and strengthen intergenerational solidarity among Albanian migrants and their left behind family and kin.

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