Family reunification - Do policies tell the whole story? The case of Ghanaian migrant parents in the UK and Netherlands
In Europe, legal parent-child family reunifications are regulated by policies specifying the eligibility criteria that migrant parents must fulfill – two of the general conditions is having a long-term residence permit and fulfilling standardized income requirements. The emergence of transnational families – border crossing family arrangements – is often blamed on the conditions set by immigration countries. On the other hand, qualitative studies in the West African context indicate that transnational family life can be a strategic choice, arguing that West African family practices, such... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Student thesis |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
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Stockholms universitet
Sociologiska institutionen |
Schlagwörter: | family reunification / migration policy / transnational families / Ghana / fostering / gender / Social Sciences / Samhällsvetenskap / Sociology / Sociologi |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29185601 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-140078 |