Uneven Paths: Latin American Women Facing Italian Family Reunification Policies

Bonizzoni, Paola

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2015.1037257

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“…In addition, there is no consensus regarding the relationship between the characteristics of members left behind and their reunification. These results contributed to forming the basis for a new approach that studies family migration by taking into account the country of origin with its gender, cultural, and family norms and their effect on family migration (Hoang 2011;Baizán, Beauchemin, and González-Ferrer 2014;Beauchemin et al 2015;Bonizzoni 2015;Caarls and Mazzuccato 2016;Fresnoza-Flot 2017).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…The paper contributes to the literature on family migration in three ways. First, most of the studies on family reunification are focused on a single country of origin and study a specific aspect of family reunification: for instance, migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and their propensity not to reunify in the host country (Baizán, Beauchemin, and González-Ferrer 2014;Beauchemin et al 2015;Mazzuccato et al 2015;Caarls and Mazzuccato 2016) or women from Latin America and the Philippines and transnational motherhood (e.g., Ambrosini 2008Ambrosini , 2015Boccagni and Lagomarsino 2011;Banfi and Boccagni 2011;Bonizzoni 2015). This approach allows the cultural context of a specific country of origin to be taken into account, but it impedes a generalisation and comparison with the other family migration models.…”

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Family reunification – who, when, and how? Family trajectories among migrants in Italy

Belgiojoso¹,

Terzera²

2018

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BACKGROUND Family reunification of migrants in their destination country is often the result of a process that includes one or more steps and combines family and migration events. However, the lack of relevant data often limits the possibility of studying all these stages. OBJECTIVE The paper aims to identify family migration models by means of the entire family migration trajectory, highlighting the relationship of these models with the migration project and with the family, cultural, and gender norms of the country of origin. METHODS We used sequence analysis on a large sample of resident families with at least one foreign-born member in Italy, using data collected by the Italian Institute of Statistics in 2011-2012. We focused exclusively on migrants from less developed countries and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. RESULTS Our results indicate that family characteristics and stability in the host country are not always relevant for family reunification. Family, cultural, and gender norms of the home country and the nature of the migration project itself determine the family migration model. When the migration project becomes orientated, or converges over time to settlement, family reunification is pursued regardless of the possible difficulties and conditions during emigration. Conversely, during the time that migrants are maintaining a temporary project, family reunification is not even considered. CONTRIBUTION Adopting a longitudinal approach, we generalised and extended previous results, considering migrants from additional countries and studying the reunification of all

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confidence: 99%

Family reunification – who, when, and how? Family trajectories among migrants in Italy

Belgiojoso¹,

Terzera²

2018

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“…Research indicates that the experience of both those dimensions is highly differentiated. Building on the concept of 'stratified reproduction' developed by Shellee Colen (1995) to capture inequalities in the social reproductive experiences of migrant West Indian childcare workers in New York vis-à-vis their white US-born employers, researchers have examined the role of migration policies in mediating the social reproductive choices and outcomes of migrants (Bonizzoni 2015;Fresnoza-Flot 2009;Menjívar 2012). Central here has been Lydia Morris' (2003) observation that migration management processes allocate differential rights and entitlements to different categories of migrants, resulting in a hierarchy of stratified rights -'civic stratification'.…”

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“…Such hierarchies are inflected with new forms of inequality, as well as pre-existing ones based on ethnicity, gender and class (Kraler 2010). In Europe, policy analysis emphasizes the sharpening divisions in rights and entitlements between intra-EU migrants and TCNs (Bonizzoni 2015;Schweitzer 2015), and in respect of the latter, between regular and irregular migrants (Fresnoza-Flot 2009). Much of the empirical research on the lived experience of patterns of stratified social reproduction, however, focuses on TCNs.…”

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“…The concept of stratified social reproduction highlights how embedded within patterns of civic stratification is a system of stratified rights around migrants' family entitlements with implications for how families socially reproduce themselves in the process of migration. Research (Bonizzoni 2015;Kilkey and Merla 2014) demonstrates, however, that migration status is not the only factor mediating social reproductive experiences, and in the current article we pay particular attention to the impact of the 'context of reception' (Portes and Rumbaut 2006). Scholarship has attended to a range of aspects of context, including labour markets, migrant networks and race / ethnic relations policies, to capture the role played by institutional structures in migrants' experiences of integration in the receiving society (Jaworsky et al 2012).…”

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Social reproduction in Sicily’s agricultural sector: migration status and context of reception

Kilkey

Urzi

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This article illuminates the social reproductive experiences of migrants labouring in Sicily's (Italy) greenhouses. Current global transformations in agricultural production are intersecting with longstanding local economic and social realities, as well as with the 2007 Global Financial Crisis and EU enlargement, to make migrants, male and female, indispensable to a sector resorting to intensified informality in pursuit of flexible and cheap workers. Understanding social reproductive experiences as configured by migrant status and context of reception, the article includes analysis of interview and observational data with two nationalities of migrants -Tunisians and Romaniansoccupying different positions in Italy's migration regime. The article concludes that the harsh context of reception posed by labour market conditions, alongside a familialistic Italian welfare regime, largely precludes opportunities for proximate social reproduction for Tunisians and Romanians. In response, migrants develop transnational resilience strategies resting on cross-border actions combining market-, family-, communityand State-based practices, to navigate the social reproductive challenges encountered. Such strategies, however, are less feasible for irregular migrants whose socio-legal position exposes them to the most exploitative working arrangements, denies them access to State welfare and renders them immobile. Moreover, for some regular migrants, such transnational resilience strategies are not their strategies of choice.

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Transnational families and child migration to France and Spain. The role of family type and immigration policies

Eremenko

González‐Ferrer

2018

Population Space and Place

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Different family migration strategies and immigration policies may lead to the separation of family members and the formation of transnational families, some of which end up reunifying later on in the country of destination. Despite the growing interest in this issue, no systematic large‐scale study has analysed to what extent child reunification patterns vary among family types, but also in distinct policy contexts. In this paper, we examine the reunification patterns of children left‐behind by parents who migrated to France and Spain in order to understand whether children from standard two‐parent families differ in their chances of joining their migrant parents in the destination country compared to children in non‐standard families (single parent and blended families), as well as the potential role of immigration policies on these chances. We base our analyses on recent nationally representative surveys of immigrants in the two countries (TeO 2008 and ENI 2007), complemented by indicators on immigration policies coded in the ImPol database produced within the TEMPER project. We find that children belonging to non‐standard families are left‐behind for longer periods of time than those in two‐parent families, even after controlling for migrant parents' socio‐economic resources. Our results equally point to a disconnection between the procedure legally defined for family reunification of children and their actual migration trajectories, as well as an important role of regularizations in facilitating the family reunification process.

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Uneven Paths: Latin American Women Facing Italian Family Reunification Policies

Cited by 23 publications

References 39 publications

Family reunification – who, when, and how? Family trajectories among migrants in Italy

Family reunification – who, when, and how? Family trajectories among migrants in Italy

Social reproduction in Sicily’s agricultural sector: migration status and context of reception

Transnational families and child migration to France and Spain. The role of family type and immigration policies

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