The Transnational Family : New European Frontiers and Global Networks

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Contents Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Part I: Introduction 1 Transnational Families in the Twenty-first Century Deborah Bryceson and Ulla Vuorela 2 Europe's Transnational Families and Migration: Past and Present Deborah Bryceson Part II: Families Straddling National Boundaries and Cultures 3 Transnational Families: Imagined and Real Communities Ulla Vuorela 4 Loss of Status or New Opportunities? Gender Relations and Transnational Ties among Bosnian Refugees Nadje Al-Ali 5 Deceitful Origins and Tenacious Roots: Moroccan Immigration and New Trends in Dutch Literature Daniela Merolla Part III: Life-Cycle Uncertainties 6 Reconceptualizing Motherhood: Experiences of Migrant Women from Turkey Living in Germany Umut Erel 7 Righteous or Rebellious? Social Trajectory of Sahelian Youth in France Mahamet Timera 8 Breaking the Generational Contract? Japanese Migration and Old-age Care in Britain Misa Izuhara and Hiroshi Shibata Part IV: Transnational Family Consolidation through Religion 9 9 Religion, Reciprocity and Restructuring Family Responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal Diaspora Rijk van Dijk 10 Religion, Migration and Wealth Creation in the Swaminarayan Movement Rohit Barot Part V: Economic and Political Networking 11 Hybridization of Religious and Political Practices amongst West African Muslim Migrants in Paris Monika Salzbrunn 12 North of South: European Immigrants' Stakeholdings in Southern Development Reynald Blion 13 Senegal's Village Diaspora and the People Left Ahead Abdoulaye Kane Epilogue Deborah Bryceson Index Contributors Nadje Al-Ali is a lecturer in social anthropology at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. She has studied in the US, Egypt and the UK where she received her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Her research interests revolve around gender issues and political cultures in the Middle East, Muslim migrants and refugees, transnationalism and feminist theory. Her publications include Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement, Cambridge University Press, 2000 and New Approaches to Migration? Transnationalism and Home, London and New York, Routledge, 2001, which she edited together with Khalid Koser. Nadje Al-Ali is a committed political activist involved in Women in Black as well as a founding member of Act Together: Women Against Sanctions on Iraq. Rohit Barot studied at Gujarat University in India, at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and the University of California, Berkeley. His PhD is from the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University. He has researched the Swaminarayan movement and migration and group formation among Bristol Indians. His publications include Religion and Ethnicity: Minorities and Social Change in the Metropolis (1993), The Racism Problematic: Contemporary Sociological Debates on Race and Ethnicity (1996) and Ethnicity, Gender and Social Change (1999). His most recent article in Ethnic and Racial Studies (July 2001) examines the concept of racialization. His teaching focuses on diaspora, racism and the formation of South Asian communities in the UK. Reynald Blion is the scientific director of the Migration, Pluri-cultural and Development programme at Institut Panos Paris. Before joining Panos in 1998 he worked for a French non- governmental organization (NGO), managing several development co-operation programmes. Previously, as a socio-economist, he worked for Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) (a scientific research Developpement center specializing in development) for a research programme on West African immigration networks. He has published several artic