Migrant Assimilation in Europe: A Transnational Family Affair

Scott, Sam; Cartledge, Kim H.

doi:10.1111/j.1747-7379.2008.01147.x

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“…However, the findings of my research contradict the argument of Scott and Cartledge (2009) that love immigrants, unlike other types of immigrants, are expected to go through 'extreme assimilation' . In the author's empirical research on women from Great Britain married to men from France and vice versa, the participants fully adapted to their partner's society and, for instance, 'all interviewees spoke their partner's language at home and only a minority had brought up their children to be genuinely bilingual' (ScottCartledge 2009: 77) .…”

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confidence: 55%

Adaptation Strategies to Turkish Society of Europeans Married to Turkish Citizens

Türünz¹

2017

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies

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Abstract. Accelerated and increasingly complex patterns of international migration are correlated with the emergence of various types of transnational families and an ever-rising number of culturally and ethnically mixed couples. Once a typical emigration country, Turkey has recently been established as a transit and receiving society, where numerous Europeans settle due to emotional ties with Turkish citizens . This paper is based on a qualitative study of 10 mixed European-Turkish families based in Istanbul, carried out through in-depth interviews. The paper is divided into three parts. First, it examines the social characteristics of the research participants . Second, it analyses the reactions of family and friends to the mixed relationship . Third, it discusses four adaptation strategies of foreign partners to Turkish society -namely, integration, assimilation, separation, and marginalization .

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Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 55%

Adaptation Strategies to Turkish Society of Europeans Married to Turkish Citizens

Türünz¹

2017

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies

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“…Selon ce modèle, le mariage mixte représenterait la dernière étape du processus d'assimilation des individus issus de groupes minoritaires (Scott et Cartledge 2009), d'où une probable moindre importance de la lignée du partenaire issu du milieu immigrant dans la vie du couple mixte. Pourtant, quelques auteurs suggèrent que les liens avec ces personnes persistent et insistent sur l'importance de tenir compte de l'influence de l'entourage familial dans la compréhension de la relation conjugale du couple (Barbara 1991 ;Lautman 1973 ;Markoff 1977).…”

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De près et de loin : les réseaux de parenté des couples mixtes québécois

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Meintel

2013

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Cet article se fonde sur les données d’une recherche menée au Québec (à Montréal et en région) auprès de 80 couples mixtes composés de partenaires d’origines ethniques différentes et ayant au moins un enfant en bas âge. Nous y examinons d’un peu plus près le rapport de ces couples avec les familles des conjoints et le rôle de celles-ci dans la socialisation des enfants. Nous montrons l’existence de contacts très denses entre le couple et les membres de leur famille, et ce, que ces derniers résident au Québec, au pays d’origine ou ailleurs dans le monde. Nous démontrons également que la lignée du conjoint issu d’une minorité ethnique demeure une partenaire privilégiée des parents dans la réalisation de leurs projets identitaires, axés sur la transmission des référents associés aux multiples origines de l’enfant. La place occupée par le pays d’origine dans les stratégies des couples mixtes est également soulignée.This article presents the results of research carried out in Quebec (in Montreal and in outlying regions) on 80 ethnically mixed couples with at least one young child. We make a close examination of the relationships of these couples with the families of the partners and the roles of the latter in the socialization of children. We show that there are very dense contacts between the couple and family members whether or not these relatives are living in Quebec, in the country of origin of one of the partners or elsewhere in the world. We also demonstrate that the family of the minority partner participates closely with the parents in bringing to fruition the identity projects of the parents for their children. These projects are based on the transmission of cultural referents associated with the multiple origins of the child. We also bring out the importance of the country of origin of the parent or grandparents in the socialization strategies of the mixed couples

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“…Binational union affects migrant women in many ways: gender oppression in the form of domestic violence, social class mobility, social insertion in the receiving countries and so on (Constable 2011;Scott and Cartledge 2009;Williams and Yu 2006). Among Filipino women in binational relations in France, their involvement in such a relationship generally brings more advantages than constrains.…”

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Gender- and social class-based transnationalism of migrant Filipinas in binational unions

Fresnoza‐Flot

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Empirical studies of Filipinos in France focus on migrant women domestic workers and consequently tend to overlook other components of the Filipino population in this country. Departing from these previous studies, I examine the case of migrant Filipinas in binational unions, that is, relationships based on marriage or cohabitation (legally registered or not) with a nonFilipino partner. Drawing from semi-structured interviews and informal conversations, this article demonstrates the intersectionality of gender and social class in the way these migrants maintain transnational familial ties. Influenced by the gender norms and ideology in the Philippines, migrant Filipinas strive to be 'good mothers' and/or 'dutiful daughters'. However, they do so differently depending on their social class belonging and on their family situation: migrants of modest social class background have usually children from previous relationships left under the care of their kin in the Philippines and feel compelled to send remittances and maintain regular communication with their family back home, whereas women of upper social class origin are neither obliged nor asked to do so. However, they send gifts and financial assistance voluntarily, pay frequent visits to their natal family and make some kin visit them in France.

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Migrant Assimilation in Europe: A Transnational Family Affair

Cited by 31 publications

References 74 publications

Adaptation Strategies to Turkish Society of Europeans Married to Turkish Citizens

Adaptation Strategies to Turkish Society of Europeans Married to Turkish Citizens

De près et de loin : les réseaux de parenté des couples mixtes québécois

Gender- and social class-based transnationalism of migrant Filipinas in binational unions

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