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This book, edited by Giovanni Giulio Valtolina and Laura Zanfrini, explores the intricate relationships between migrant families and religious belonging within the European context. It examines the impact of immigration on familial structures and religious identities, particularly focusing on how these elements challenge and redefine integration models and policies. The book delves into various aspects, including gender equality among Muslim migrants, the role of religion in family dynamics, and the diasporic religious identities of immigrant communities. Through a collection of essays, it aims to shed light on the multifaceted experiences of migrant families and their influence on European societies, making it a valuable resource for scholars and policymakers interested in immigration, family studies, and religious diversity.

Immigrant families. --- Religious pluralism. --- Immigrant families --- Religious pluralism

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Immigrant families --- Jews, Russian --- Russian Americans

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Despite extensive and continuous academic interest in migrant and transnational families, a stereotypical view that those leading mobile lives are somehow beyond the contours of normativity is still prevalent. Such a perspective concerns both kinship and family practices of "familyhood" across borders, and the bi- or multicultural settings of providing or offering care. Consequently, we primarily hear about migration leading to broken relationships, the dissolution of families and bonds, substandard provisions of care, abandonment, exploitation of employees and so on. In this climate of public imagination of migrants either being "dangerous" or concurrently stealing one's job and scrounging off the welfare state, it is no small feat to be a migration scholar. Trying to overcome the universalising views that essentialise human experience requires a wholly different point of departure, one which is represented in this volume. This is because a now well-established transnational paradigm allows for a more nuanced analysis, originating with the premise that not only normalises mobility, but also proves that various ties and relationships can be continued in the long-term despite spatial distance. On the whole, the transnational lens provided here showcases how new family practices are devised and deployed in mobile family lives, thus allowing the argument that migration enriches certain dimensions of contemporary family life and caregiving.This book plays on the dichotomy of migration as "the new normal" and mobility as a continuous source of challenges. The core issues examined here concern such problems as maintaining kinship ties across borders, new patterns of mothering and fathering, children's sense of belonging and identifications, and social capital and engagement in community life. It reveals that "doing family" in the migration context often eludes simple definitions of national space or typical family. Instead, it offers a transnational understanding of how a person practically and pragmatically arranges one's family and kinship, strategically choosing pathways of care, child-rearing, relationships at home, maintaining traditions and so forth.

Emigration and immigration --- Immigrant families. --- Social aspects.

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Immigrant families --- Emigration and immigration --- Families --- Social aspects

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Chinese American families --- Immigrant families --- Wong family. --- Beloit (Wis.)