Forced Migration and Separated Families Everyday Insecurities and Transnational Strategies

• Other Authors: Tiilikainen, Marja (Editor), Hiitola, Johanna (Editor), Ismail, Abdirashid A. (Editor), Palander, Jaana (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Subjects: Migration, immigration & emigration; Public administration; LGBTI+ refugees' vulnerabilities in Pakistan; Family separation and affect in forced migrants' narratives; Syrian refugees' displacement in Jordan; Mothers' everyday life at the Mexican-US border; Law, policy and administration of family reunification; Family rights of migrants; International human rights tribunals; Insecurities of family members abroad; Family reunification law in Finland; Refugees' strategies for family reunification in Brazil; Forced migration and transnational family separation; Irregular migrants in Somalia; Economic security and families left-behind in Nigeria; Syrian refugees in Lebanon and in Germany; African refugees and forced family separation in Israel; Forced migration in the Global South; Forced family separation
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This open access book examines the impacts and experiences of family separation on forced migrants and their transnational families. On the one hand, it investigates how people with a forced migration background in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America experience separation from their families, and on the other, how family and kin in the countries of origin or transit are impacted by the often precarious circumstances of their family members in receiving countries. In particular, this book provides new knowledge on the nexus between transnational family separation, forced migration, and everyday (in)security. Additionally, it yields comparative information for assessing the impacts of relevant legislation and administrative practice in a number of national contexts. Based on rich empirical data, including unique cases about South-South migration, the findings in this book are highly relevant to academics in migration and refugee studies as well as policy-makers, legislators and practitioners.