Navigating family migration in social science research
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https://doi.org/10.12775/lud109.2025.07Słowa kluczowe
parenthood, culture of parenting, migrant parents, family migration, migrant familiesAbstrakt
This article focuses on identifying different types of family migration and their effects on family life. Through an in-depth literature review, it discusses the motivations for migration, decision-making processes, and the challenges families encounter as they embark on their migration journeys. Furthermore, it presents the experiences of the family within a conceptual framework that goes beyond the Western understanding of these concepts. It emphasizes the parental perspective which is found to be missing in academic literature. Therefore, constructs such as kinship, agency, and belonging serve as lenses through which parental experiences are examined. The article reveals both macro and micro levels of family migration processes and their social perceptions, which contribute to the formation of parental culture and in turn influence migrant parents’ experiences. Finally, it serves as a call for future research, including more nuanced studies of family migration and migrant parenthood in particular.
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