Managing ‘Difference’ in Eastern European Transnational Families, edited by Viorela Ducu and Áron Telegdi-Csetri

Abstract

Managing ‘Difference’ in Eastern European Transnational Families is an edited volume co-authored by scholars primarily from Central and Eastern European countries. The authors explore how the political transformations of 1990, coupled with the development of new technologies, dramatically changed the intimate aspects of people’s lives, such as marriage, spousal love, parental love, child rearing, and the very concept of family. These topics are not new; issues such as diasporic populations, the development of new identities, third space, hybridity, transnationality, and translocality have been long present in the postcolonial