Handbook of Transnational Families Around the World

Dr. Javiera Cienfuegos is Associate Professor at Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano (Chile) and obtained her PhD. in Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin. Her main research areas include family diversity, transnational migration, and social emotions, which converge on the phenomenon of transnational families, an issue which has worked intensively since 2007. Her dissertation was awarded the triannual prize Friedrich Katz of the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin. This work has been published as a book by RIL Publishing House.Between 2019 and 2021, Dr Cienfuegos was a visiting scholar at the Latin American Institute in the Freie Universitát Berlin, conducting post-doctoral research on family processes and labour trajectories of high-skilled migrants, including the countries of Germany and Chile. Her work is available in three different languages as book chapters and double-blind peer-reviewed articles. Recently, Dr Cienfuegos has been editor and co-editor of two books, Special Issues. Javiera Cienfuegos lectured sociology of migration and emotions, and qualitative and mixed methods of social research at Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano. Furthermore, Dr Cienfuegos promotes family diversity through an academic and community visual project called "Familia Glocal" the main objective is to render visible, rescuing quotidian experiences and issues the variety of forms of "doing family".Rosa Brandhorst is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD) at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Bielefeld. From 2017 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Discipline Group of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia. Brandhorst’s main research areas include sociology of family, migration and social transformation, with a particular focus on transnational families, the organization of transnational care, transnational ageing and transnational support networks. She has lectured on the sociology of migration, transnationalism and qualitative methods of social research at the University of Vienna, the University of Bielefeld,  the University of Göttingen and the University Porto Alegre. In the project "Ageing and New Media: A New Analysis of Older Australians' Support Networks” of the University of Western Australia Perth and La Trobe University Melbourne, Brandhorst analyzed the changes in the composition of older migrants' support networks. Furthermore, she conducted multi-sited research on transnational families between Cuba and Germany and their impact on social change in Cuba. Brandhorst has published a book on transnational families between Cuba and Germany and their impact on the social change in Cuba  and peer reviewed articles, book chapters and edited Special Issues on migration, transnational families and transnational ageing, as well as on qualitative methods of social research.  Her publications are available in English and German. Deborah Fahy Bryceson is a Professorial Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh and Extraordinary Professor at the Nordic Africa Institute, University of Uppsala. Trained as a geographer and a sociologist, she has been inter-disciplinary in approach throughout her career. She has worked at various research centres including the Bureau of Resource and Land Use Planning at the University of Dar es Salaam, where she did her undergraduate and Masters degrees, before doing her DPhil at the University of Oxford. She has held academic positions at the University of Dar es Salaam, the Architectural Association in London, the Afrika-Studiecentrum at the University of Leiden, Birmingham University and Glasgow University as well as research associateships with the Universities of Oxford, Copenhagen, Uppsala and Edinburgh. Her research consultancy work spans various United Nations agencies including the International Labour Office, FAO, UNCTAD, UNRISD, UNICEF and the United Nations University. In her work on African sectoral change she has pioneered the concepts of ‘de-agrarianization’ and ‘mineralized urban growth’. More generally she has gained widespread international recognition for her concept of the ‘transnational family’. She has been a member of a transnational family for the past 50 years and has written on the topic of transnational families for the past two decades. Her first book ,The Transnational Family co-edited with Ulla Vuorela (Berg Publishers, 2002), was the first to theorize the phenomenon of family transnationalism. More recently she edited Transnational Families in Global Migration: Navigating Economic Development and Family Life Cycles across Blurred and Brittle Borders, a Special Issue of theJournal of Ethnic and Migration (2019).

• INTRODUCTION: Entangled Logics in Transnational Families (Javiera Cienfuegos and Rosa Brandhorst).- PART I: The Importance (and Continuity) of Gender Inequalities.- Families, Female Heads of Household and Feminization of Migration in Central America (Ana Lucía Fernández Fernández).- Adult-Son and Father Relationships Across the Life Course: Reflections on the Korean American Package Deal (Allen Kim).- Raising a Family in the Distance: Family Practices in Contexts of Colombian Migration to Santiago De Chile (Adriana Zapata).- Power Asymmetry in Shared Mothering Arrangements: Filipino Migrant Mothers in France and their Co-Mothers in the Philippines (Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot).- International Marriage, Migration and Transnational Family Life: The Case of Japanese-Filipino Families (Jocelyn O. Celero).- PART II: New (Other) Actors on the Global Scale.- Cultural Identity and Cosmopolitan Attitudes in Zero -Second Generation Transnational Relationships via Materialities (ViorelaDucu & Áron Telegdi Csetri).- Facing Global Processes: Highly Qualified Migrants and their Struggles for Recognition (Javiera Cienfuegos).- Analyzing the Far-Reaching Impacts of the Out-Migration of Female Labor: Barrel Children, Migrant Jamaican Teachers and Dependent Families (Karen Thomas-Brown).- Moral Economies and Transnational Families of Central American Migrants in Mexico and the US (Kristin E. Yarris & Charles Watters).- ‘Familia En El Extranjero’: Transnational Families and the Reconfiguration of Social Inequalities in Cuba (Rosa Brandhorst).- Transnational Families: Brazilian Immigration to the United States, Education and Belonging (Gabrielle Oliveira & Mariana Lima Becker).- Older People and Transnational Family Configurations (Claudio Bolzman).- PART III: Reunification and its Possibilities: Deported and Returned.- Transnational Families and the Impact of Reintegration: Returned Bolivian Women from Spain in between of Social Suffering and Resilience (Sònia Parella & Alisa Petroff).- Uneven Borders: Regulating the Separation and Reunification of Migrant Families (Paola Bonizzoni, Milena Belloni).- Caring from a Distance: Aging Migrants and their Elderly Kin Back in the Homeland (Johanna O. Zulueta).- Transnational Families, Potentiality and being from Somewhen: The Case of an Afghan/Turkmen Family in Istanbul (Diana Ibáñez-Tirado).- The Deportation Experience: Vulnerability and Violence in the Social Reproduction of Transnational Families (Gioconda Herrera).- Dominican Transnational Families and the Impact of Deportation (Nina Nyberg Sorensen).- Legal Trajectories and Transnational Family Engagement of West African Migrants in The Netherlands (Kim Caarls).

“The case studies presented in the Handbook of transnational families around the world cover a broad geographical range and reflect many of the challenges that social workers occupied with service users … . This makes the handbook highly valuable for social workers interested in exploring social issues that arise at the intersection of local, national and global contexts. … . the handbook has a strong agenda-setting role for social work practice and research … .” (Mieke Schrooten, European Journal of Social Work, June 6, 2024)