Families in Motion

Lesley Murray is an Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Brighton, UK. Liz McDonnell is a Research Fellow and teaches on the MA in Gender studies at Sussex University, UK. Tamsin Hinton-Smith is a Sociologist of Gender and Education, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, UK.Nuno Ferreira is a Professor of Law at the University of Sussex, UK. Katie Walsh is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex, UK.

• 1.Introduction; Lesley Murray, Liz McDonnell, Katie Walsh, Nuno Ferreira, and Tamsin Hinton-Smith Section 1: Moving Through Separation and Connection 2.Travelling Feelings: Narratives of Sustaining Love in Two Comparative Cultural Case Studies of Fathering During Family Separations; Alexandra Macht 3. 'Clinging on': Prison and the Changing Landscape of the Family; Marie Hutton  4. 'Living Together Apart' as Families in Transition; Liz Mcdonnell, Lesley Murray, Tamsin Hinton-Smith and Nuno Ferreira 5. 'The Sense of Space' of Children Living in Stepfamilies in Belgium; Laura Merla and Bérengère NobelsSection 2: Uneven Motions and Resistance 6.The Roles of ICTs in Sustaining the Mobilities of Transnational Families; Sondra Cuban 7.Life Course Transitions as Liminal Zones; Bella Marckmann 8.Jumping Through Hoops: Families' Experiences of Pre-Birth Child Protection; Ariane Critchley  9.Families and Flow: The Temporalities of Everyday Family Practices; Clare Holdsworth Section 3: Traces and Potentialities 10.Losing A Father in a Demolished Ex-Industrial Landscape: A Researcher's Emotional Geography; Lisa Taylor 11.Children in Motion: Doing Family Across Two Households; Rakel Berman 12.Families on-Foot: Assembling Motherhood and Childhood Through Care and Play; Susannah Clement 13.Reconciling Past Family Disruption and Transitional Flux into the Present: Foster Care-Experienced Youths' Parenting Narratives; Caroline Cresswell 14.Moving to be a Family: The Case of Italian Women in Morocco; Maria Giovanna Cassa

Challenging the idea of a stable family, this volume brings together 14 chapters by social work, sociology, law, and other scholars from Europe, Australia, and the US, to explore the concept of the family as always in motion and the idea that movement and change are part of the ongoing constitution of family, focusing on the spatial and time aspects of family. They discuss how people move in and out of different contexts of family, become separated, and reconnect, in terms of fatherhood in family separations, prison, living together when an intimate relationship ends, and the way children of separated parents construct their home in the context of equal shared custody agreements; uneven motion and resistance in families, in terms of the role of information and communication technology in sustaining the mobility of transnational families, how family transitions offer opportunities for role redefinitions, strategies of resistance used by expectant mothers in response to the threat to their future relationship with unborn children, and everyday family practices like leisure activities; and aspects of family separations and how families are made, including absent fathers, children moving between two homes, what happens when families walk together, young people who have experienced foster care becoming parents, and the migration of Italian women in Morocco.