Introduction: Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility: Introducing a Global and Family Life-Course Perspective

Abstract

In addition to sketching out the volume chapter by chapter, the Introduction outlines the contribution the book makes to scholarship on family life in an age of migration and mobility by its choice of analytical frames. Firstly, the dual lens of migration and mobilities which allows a focus on family life stretched across multiple spatial scales. Secondly, a global perspective which facilitates the interrogation of Western theoretical frames from different world views, as well the examination of interdependencies and inequalities between and within different regions of the world. Thirdly, the family life-course lens which brings temporality into the frame, and invites the use of the concept of social reproduction, allowing for a focus on how families are formed, procreate and care over time and space.