Gender, Family, and Adaptation of Migrants in Europe

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This volume documents the life uncertainties revealed by migrants’ biographies. For international migrants, life journeys are less conventional or patterned, while their family, work, and educational trajectories are simultaneously more fragmented and intermingled. The authors discuss the challenges faced by migrants and returnees when trying to make sense of their life courses after years of experience in other countries with different age norms and cultural values. The book also examines the ways to reconcile competing cultural expectations of both origin and destination societies regarding the timing of transitions between roles to provide a meaningful account of their life courses. Migration is, itself, a major life event, with profound implications for the pursuit of migrants’ life goals, organization of family life, and personal networks, and it can affect, to a considerable degree, their subjective well-being. Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction: Uncertain Biographies? A Focus on Migrants’ Life Courses (Ionela Vlase, Bogdan Voicu)....Pages 1-12 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Fringed Life Satisfaction? A Life-Course Perspective on the Impact of International Migration on Subjective Well-Being (Bogdan Voicu)....Pages 15-39 ‘Walking Alongside’ Polish Migrants in Ireland: Individual Life Courses in the Context of Political, Social, and Economic Change (Justyna Salamońska)....Pages 41-65 ‘And we are still here’: Life Courses and Life Conditions of Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Retirees in Switzerland (Claudio Bolzman, Giacomo Vagni)....Pages 67-89 Front Matter ....Pages 91-91 Gendered Migratory Pathways: Exploring the Work Trajectories of Long-Term Romanian Migrants (Alin Croitoru)....Pages 93-115 Fragmented Careers, Gender, and Migration During the Great Recession (Francesca Alice Vianello)....Pages 117-138 Front Matter ....Pages 139-139 Immigration, Transition to Parenthood, and Parenting (Anca Bejenaru)....Pages 141-169 Women’s Stories of Migration: Youth, Personal Agency, and Linked Lives (Ana Maria Preoteasa)....Pages 171-193 Men’s Migration, Adulthood, and the Performance of Masculinities (Ionela Vlase)....Pages 195-225 Conclusion: Setting Up an Agenda for Life-Course Perspective in International Migration (Bogdan Voicu, Ionela Vlase)....Pages 227-234 Back Matter ....Pages 235-241