The family in question
Subtitle: immigrant and ethnic minorities in multicultural Europe
By: edited by Ralph Grillo.
Contributors: Grillo, R. D.
Series: IMISCOE research; IMISCOE research
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Amsterdam]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789053568699
Subjects: Immigrant families -- Europe -- Congresses; Minority families -- Europe -- Congresses; Multiculturalism -- Europe -- Congresses; Immigrants -- Europe -- Social conditions -- Congresses; Ethnicity -- Europe -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Other titles: Immigrant and ethnic minorities in multicultural Europe
Notes: Selected papers from a workshop on 'Debating Cultural Difference: The Family,' held at the University of Sussex in April 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The family in dispute : insiders and outsiders / Ralph Grillo; title: Inside and outside : contrasting perspectives on the dynamics of kinship and marriage in contemporary South Asian transnational networks / Roger Ballard; title: "For women and children!" : the family and immigration politics in Scandinavia / Anniken Hagelund; title: Defining "family" and bringing it together : the ins and outs of family reunification in Portugal / Maria Lucinda Fonseca and Meghann Ormond; title: Debating cultural difference : Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam and women / Erik Snel and Femke Stock; title: Family dynamics, uses of religion and inter-ethnic relations within the Portuguese cultural ecology / Susana Bastos and José Bastos; title: The dream of family : Muslim migrants in Austria / Anna Stepien; title: Who cares? : "external," "internal" and "mediator" debates about South Asian elders' needs / Kanwal Mand; title: Italian families in Switzerland : sites of belonging or "golden cages?" perceptions and discourses inside and outside the migrant family / Susanne Wessendorf; title: Dealing with "that thing" : female circumcision and Sierra Leonean refugee girls in the UK / Radha Rajkotia; title: Socio-cultural dynamics in intermarriage in Spain : beyond simplistic notions of hybridity / Dan Rodríguez-García; title: Debating culture across distance : transnational families and the obligation to care / Loretta Baldassar.